The Unitary Executive Lie
This post is written solely in my role as a private individual. It is not written for and does not reflect the views of my employer or any agency of the US Government. Foreword The president does not love truth. Indeed, the administration he has built does not believe in objective truth in the way that normal people do. The administration posits repeatedly that truth is subjective, that it is formed by what those in power can enforce, by what can be claimed loudest and repeated often enough in social media, by what can sneak through court using bad-faith arguments strewn across myriad attempts. Truth, to this administration, is unknowable. To hear their claims, there are always alternative facts, differing viewpoints, biased agendas. Unbiased, honest, reliable truth is alien to them. The administration’s dialog does not allow for the possibility of objective truth, nor those who seek it, nor especially those who find it. To their view, truth must be