Many are lamenting that the Trump election shows that our politics are now “post factual”.

But this is not a new phenomenon.

Looking at the headlines that come across the feeds and Google News… clearly demonstrates that “facts” are not so valued.

Maybe facts never were.

We need to be careful about building our own mythology about the “good ol’ days”.

Just like some Americans today believe the 1950’s was some idealistic era, we ought not think there was an era in which American society was somehow more factual, more scientific, more rational than it is today.