Masha Gessen gets it right again.
Masha Gessen, New York Times Opinion: Don’t Fight Their Lies with Lies of Your Own
The bad news is that Mr. Trump is succeeding. Fraudulent news stories, which used to be largely a right-wing phenomenon, are becoming increasingly popular among those who oppose the president. (I prefer not to add to the appeal of such stories by citing them, but an example is the string of widely shared items that purported to link every death of a more-or-less prominent Russian man to Russian interference in the election.) Each story dangles the promise of a secret that can explain the unimaginable. Each story comes with the ready justification that desperate times call for outrageous claims. But each story deals yet another blow to our fact-based reality, destroying the very fabric of politics that Mr. Trump so clearly disdains.
Proper resistance is occurring against administrative actions and in opposition to legislation. Yesterday’s victory was one of authentic resistance for which Resistance(tm) is trying to claim credit. The grassroots actually got it without the Washington bubble media campaign.
