It's one thing to assess reality and draw the wrong conclusions from it or exercise wrong judgment about it. Everyone does that.
But the President and his followers don't just do that. Like children -- or, more accurately, like those who are driven by an unshakable, faith-driven belief that they are Right -- they just ignore reality when it isn't what they want it to be or think it should be, and they just magically invent a different reality that they like better, and then stay there. [...] The President and his followers simply don't accept or live in reality and literally don't believe in facts.
The problem with this particular modus operandi (or, actually, since it goes deeper than that, modus vivendi) is that eventually reality bites back. That's what's been happening in Iraq, and it's what happened on Tuesday.
