One question this article doesn't attempt to answer is why doesn't this "everybody lies" narrative work in an infinite loop? Putin makes a lie, his opponents c

One question this article doesn't attempt to answer is why doesn't this "everybody lies" narrative work in an infinite loop? Putin makes a lie, his opponents call out the lie, Putin says "but everybody lies"... why don't his opponents point that back at him, saying, "You, being everyone, are lying now!" Is there a drop off of interest? Can people not follow beyond the first circle of blame? Or do people follow as far as they need to for the blame to land where they already want it to land? Was it always like this? I hear a great deal about how things are getting "worse", but throughout human history, hasn't it almost always been the case that the people in charge defined truth? From Hammurabi, the Pharaohs, the Athenians (with a brief stop in democracy), the Romans, the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman-Turks, and now the Americans, hasn't power always lied? Why do people expect this not to be the case? For us to be living in a post-fact world, don't we have to have lived at one point, in a fact world? I'm not sure we did...