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The post-election narrative has been a chilling wake up call to how fast history can be revised if enough people see revisionism to be in their best interest. I always thought that memories of major events take years, if not decades, to warp around certain agendas, but it turns out it could happen literally overnight. Right until election day, every pundit said Clinton was running one of the smoothest and most professional campaigns in recent memory, while Trump was running a trainwreck. They laughed at him for campaigning in Wisconsin because what kind of idiot would visit such a solidly blue state. But on election night it dawned on the media that maybe they made a massive fuck up by treating an email server as anything but mild carelessness, and Bernie diehards who stayed home realized that maybe their votes could have made a difference, and Republicans who hated Trump and voted third party realized the same thing, and so they all immediately started saying she ran the worst campaign and was the worst candidate in all history, no one could possibly be blamed but her, and now that’s the narrative. In Katy Tur’s book she talks about struggling to fight against the way Trump gaslights the media, but the media has made no attempt to rectify the gaslighting it’s been doing for 10 months.