bs2<p>&gt; A Bush aide (later identified as key adviser <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/KarlRove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KarlRove</span></a>)... disparaged <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/EvidenceBasedReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EvidenceBasedReality</span></a>, though in his case by favoring facts created not through faith but power. As he so resonantly explained to those stuck “in what we call the <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/RealityBasedCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RealityBasedCommunity</span></a>”:<br>'... We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality... We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'<br> <a href="https://tomdispatch.com/rebecca-gordon-confronting-alternative-facts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tomdispatch.com/rebecca-gordon</span><span class="invisible">-confronting-alternative-facts/</span></a><br> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/TomDispatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TomDispatch</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/RebeccaGordan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RebeccaGordan</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/BushJunior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BushJunior</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/OnBullshit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnBullshit</span></a>?</p>