I know when I am being brain washed. I was in that field for 12 years.
For me it is mainly a choice what to believe. I choose to be brain washed to the constitution and rule of law by the people and for the people.

Trump is like a Corleone who grew up in a private family business, inherited the family business and has his kids working for him. All without ever having a board of directors overruling him.

As in the Apprentice, firing people is always a Trump final solution but in government he is getting a rude awakening that his life long trained reality doesn't exist in the White House.

Yes Hillary claimed a vast right wing conspiracy existed yet there is evidence it is true.
Republicans claim there is a Secret Society in the FBI called secret society but all they have for evidence is a text message between lovers with no context.

My brain is different than yours Iains. While we agree on global warming we will probably never agree on the sources and methods of misinformation.