Jeff, I think you're on to an important element by referring to lies and people being fooled. There's also the related fact that huge numbers of people just don't pay much attention -- those "low-information voters" we heard so much about after the last election. All that does help to explain the state we're in and raises the question, as you say, of what will it take for the administration's abuses to cut through to a critical mass of people.
Jeff, I think you're on to an important element by referring to lies and people being fooled. There's also the related fact that huge numbers of people just don't pay much attention -- those "low-information voters" we heard so much about after the last election. All that does help to explain the state we're in and raises the question, as you say, of what will it take for the administration's abuses to cut through to a critical mass of people.