Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him. Ezra Klein in today’s (Feb 2) New York Times opinion piece entitled “Don’t Believe Him.”

Steve Bannon’s “Muzzle Velocity” is the strategy. They are counting on the fact that media (traditional and social) can only focus on one thing at a time, and so they flood every news cycle with forty things so that nobody pays attention to the other thirty-nine. So I guess this means that at the grassroots level we have to keep a focus on EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE. Not possible for an individual to do, but definitely possible in the collective. We have to keep calling it out with factual and verifiable information. We need to stop falling for the “shock and awe.” Congress won’t stop this, but the states and the courts can halt some of it, with our help.

I hate to say it this way, but the new civil war is fought with a different ammunition: information. Make sure yours is better than theirs.