It was inevitable that, after returning from a two-week vacation, I would discover that I had missed a lot of major news stories and outrage cycles. That comes with the territory when you go offline for any significant period of time.
What I didn’t expect was to come back and feel like someone who had been in a coma for the past five years, only to awaken and realize that the world is apparently a very, very different place than I thought it was. I didn’t expect that some of the most basic facts that we all took for granted — things that no serious person would dispute — would suddenly become the stuff of “conspiracy theories,” all in the span of just 14 days or so.
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