With President Trump mounting a frantic, last-ditch effort to stop the counting of votes that could doom his reelection, his Fox News propagandists are wheeling into action: One after another, they are raging that the election is being stolen from Trump by all manner of chicanery and fraud.
In a way, this represents the perfect finale for them, because there may be no group of people alive who did more to construct the bubble of unreality that Trump bought into all throughout the past year.
In so doing, they had a big hand in creating the record and even the worldview — the themes and narratives and depiction of the state of the country and the true nature of the challenges it faces — on which he ended up staking his reelection.
Now they are engaged in a final rearguard effort to help prevent the American people from rendering their verdict on all of it in a free and fair election — to forestall that verdict on what they themselves wrought.