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Are we looking at the same article? This piece is literally a fact check.
This idea of fact checks being the antidote to trumpian fascism is straight from 2015. No amount of fact checking or "facts and logic" will slow fascism, and the roaring success of Trump's campaign despite countless debate moderator fact checks, community notes, and politifacts should make that very clear.
You need to abandon this liberal idea that Americans turn fascist only because they have yet to be shown the "data" or "facts". Liberalism is the idea that sitting a fascist down and showing them facts, logics, charts, statistics, and expert testimony will somehow magically convert them into a leftist.
The leftists framework is that fascism is the result of worsening material conditions and withering away of social safety nets, and the only way to fight fascism is to change material conditions or kill fascists. This is in direct contrast with liberalism - which posits that the ever-evolving, self-correcting marketplace of ideas is the end-all extinguisher of fascism. Look where that got us....
I think the guy you're responding to was making a statement about the lack of fact-checking in the media in general, not with this piece in particular.
So facts and receipts are out.
Please assure me heckling and laughter isn't off the table. I need something.