what we re doing is going to work. matthew, he s getting at what i wanted you to tease at, which is it s almost the cultural connection that the right has decided it doesn t have with mainstream media, so it doesn t matter what we report. well, you don t understand my life so why should i care? that culture disconnect is decades old. what gives us this perfect storm of alt-truth is a few things. one isou technological change, which kara mentioned. another is the institutional breakdown, which i think you showed earlier in the program. confidence in the big institutions is just totally thank god for congress or woo would be at the bottom. then president trump who benefits from both of the change t amplify his message. so what you end up with is this place where no one can really agree on the very basic material governing our democracy. i think the important thing, though, is to recognize that this just didn t organically happen. you know, this also comes in the context of a