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Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics and policy. He taught political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio and DePauw University and wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.
"Every vice president has a different role, a different responsibility," says the 44th Vice President of the United States, Dan Quayle. "It all depends on what the president wants."
Is this when it ends for that ancient ideal, the truth? Is this where it has come to die, victim of campaigns and conspiracies, politicians and internet trolls and the masses who swallow their rhetoric? "The value of facts in a democracy has taken a beating," said David Barrett, a political science professor at Villanova University. It isn't just a presidential race in which Donald Trump has climbed new fact-bending heights while branding opponent Hillary Clinton "crooked" or "lying."