These twits by Trump. The broad sweeping accusations by Barr. They have a purpose.
To build a ‘consensus based reality’.
Propaganda 101.
It’s designed to push the ‘overton window’ of what is acceptable in discussion points. It’s the spearpoint of the ‘move fast/break things’ - agile development for of altering reality.
Journalist Ron Suskind wrote of a meeting with a Bush ‘aide’.
The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ […] ‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’.
The source of the quotation was later identified as Bush’s senior advisor Karl Rove,[ although Rove has denied saying it.
Why do they do this sort of thing?
Because it works.