Don’t underestimate the power of the fake news juggernaut. Last evening I was speaking with a neighbor, who mentioned that he and his wife had wanted to drive to Colorado to see their son, but gas prices were too prohibitive. These people have plenty of money, but $3.50 gas is keeping them home. Say what? Furthermore, it’s all Joe Biden’s fault (Here we go), because he canceled the Keystone pipeline, jacking up gas prices and reversing our energy independence. I might as well have been talking to Tucker Carlson himself. My neighbor was reciting Fox News rhetoric chapter and verse. And here’s what makes it so popular and penetrating. It reinforces people’s victim mindset, validating that whatever their plight, it’s someone else’s fault. This is the essence of the right wing fake news and Trumpism.