Welcome to post-truth, post-fact, and post-reality America where the occurrence of an event you don’t like is immediately a conspiracy to be ridiculed, dismissed, and ‘just asking questions about it’ to death.

The attempted assassination of President Trump falls into that category. Since it’s politically inconvenient, 1 in 3 Dems have already adopted the position that it was staged.

One in three registered Democrats believe it is “credible” that the shooting Saturday in Butler, Pa., was staged and not intended to kill Trump, according to a Morning Consult poll released Monday.

The poll numbers show that it’s a real phenomenon. There’s a lot of nonsense about BlueAnon, but this isn’t a movement. It’s just what happens when you get your reality from social media. It’s also what happens when a society no longer has any concept of objective truth and people just pick whatever truth fits their preconceptions.

And the 1 in 3 number is just an early assessment. Now that there’s a whole infrastructure of grifters ‘analyzing videos frame by frame’, doing substacks and podcasts on it, then followed by books describing it as the new Reichstag fire, expect those numbers to climb even higher.

The media destroyed its credibility through relentless partisan bias not just for conservatives, but also for much of the public. A culture of lying set in along with online conspiracy grifters and nuts who make millions from social media.

But while it’s easy to take shots at Ear Truthers, is this really any crazier than Democrats and the media insisting for years that Putin rigged the 2016 election with Facebook ads and controlled Trump through videos of urinating prostitutes? It’s certainly no crazier and perhaps actually less crazy.

If you believe, as Dems claim to, that Putin is running Trump through a series of conspiracies, this makes perfect sense. It’s the media that chooses to draw the line at one insane conspiracy, but not another, which is being inconsistent.