Overview: Destructive political lies have legs. Trump's fantasy that 2020's election was rigged caused Capitol insurrection and is corrupting 2022 vote. At the risk of exaggerating a connection to today’s American political environment, bald-faced lies disingenuously and persistently applied over time destroyed Germany’s pre-World War II Weimar Republic. The lies were spread by the racist Nazi Party’s fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, in a cynical and diabolical propaganda campaign inflicted on the German people during years of hardship after Germany suffered a humiliating loss in World War I. Eventually, those lies became broadly sprinkled in German minds across the nation, and...