When moderator Margaret Brennan noted during the vice presidential debate that Republican nominee J.D. Vance had, once again, lied about the legal status of migrants in Springfield, Ohio, Vance retorted: “The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check!” This is post truth politics on display, an acceptance of lies bold face and admitted to replace the truth and the provable facts have become the path to the undoing of the republic. JDV's patron Peter Thiel is a selfstyled libertarian who wrote: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” He is DJT's puppetmaster