You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. Fantasy is the USA's primary product. From the Pilgrim Fathers onward, America has been a place where renegades and freaks came in search of freedom to create their own realities with little objectively regulated truth standing in their way. The freedom to invent and believe whatever you like is, in some ways, an unwritten constitutional right. However, this do-your-own-thing freedom is also the driving credo of America's current transformation, where the difference between opinion and fact is rapidly crumbling. So how did we get to this weird pseudo-reality, where science and objective facts are dismissed in favor of opinions and wild speculation, or indeed, fantasies? The post-truth, fake news, free-for-all mentality isn't exactly a new phenomenon. If you want to understand Trump's America, how the lines between reality and...