In sum, Donald Trump didn't invent this problem. Too many Americans were predisposed to reject science, medicine, and fact-based reality when he became President.
He will leave the White House in six weeks having made the problem a lot worse, however. The final legacy of his failed presidency will have been convincing a majority of Republicans that he was reelected, notwithstanding more than four dozen lawsuits asserting that claim filed by him or on his behalf have been tossed out of court for lack of evidence.
The fact that a good percentage of Americans believe in gibberish and conspiracy theories is not a new circumstance, however. It's been around a long time, arguably longer than the democracy itself. The Salem Witch Trials are a good example of that.
It's not a situation unique to America, either. It is seen in most cultures on earth. It's a classic battle of ignorance versus intelligence.
One way to alleviate this problem is to fight hard to defeat any Trump-like candidates in the future. And that includes members of the Trump family themselves. His children have flirted with entering politics, his daughter-in-law may run for the Senate from North Carolina, and Trump himself is talking about running for President again in 2024.
Trump's war on truth is a war on America and its fundamental values. It must never happen again.
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