What's fascinating about that is that if you're willing to set aside how much that sounds like something a Bond villain would say, it's actually remarkably bett

What's fascinating about that is that if you're willing to set aside how much that sounds like something a Bond villain would say, it's actually remarkably better than where we are today. First of all it's vastly more articulate than the angry thuggish bravado that characterizes modern political speech, but it's actually aspirational about acting in a way to shape reality rather than trying to work within the existing framework. If you can look past the source and generalize the sentiment, there's actually a nugget of a half-decent idea there. In tech industry terms you might even call this the basic idea behind "disruption". Given the source, such shaping should obviously be viewed with deep suspicion, but at least Rove was talking about taking real action that actually creates changes in the foundational way the world works. But the modern version is just ignoring reality entirely and simply asserting your own version of it with a combination of emotion based vibes and basic lying. This version of rejecting the reality based community isn't about changing reality at all, but simply getting a critical mass of people to operate in a make believe alternate reality. For all of Karl Rove's problems, this is significantly worse since it means large portions of the public are now operating in a way completely unmoored from the actual underlying facts.