Trump is by no means the first president to appeal to fear and anxiety.
Gleb doesn’t say he was. He says (1) Trump is the first “post-truth president” and (2) one aspect of his post-truthiness is his appeal to emptions such as fear and anxiety. (You can tell it’s only one aspect from, e.g., the next sentence, starting “Moreover”.)
Glenn Kessler’s “Fact Checker” column isn’t “highly reputable”, in fact it has been caught multiple times [...]
I had a look for examples of Kessler being “caught” doing bad things. The cases I found weren’t terribly clear-cut and it’s not clear to me from them that Kessler’s column isn’t “highly reputable” (note: this isn’t the same as “infallible”). But I didn’t spend a long time looking and you may have much better examples. Care to link to a couple of the best ones?
In any case, this is only a lie if Gleb doesn’t consider Kessler’s column highly reputable; and it’s two sentences :-).
(For the avoidance of doubt, I am not intending any defence of Gleb that’s any stronger than “In this specific case, ‘one lie per sentence’ appears to be far from accurate”.)
That doesn’t look like one lie per sentence.
Gleb doesn’t say he was. He says (1) Trump is the first “post-truth president” and (2) one aspect of his post-truthiness is his appeal to emptions such as fear and anxiety. (You can tell it’s only one aspect from, e.g., the next sentence, starting “Moreover”.)
I had a look for examples of Kessler being “caught” doing bad things. The cases I found weren’t terribly clear-cut and it’s not clear to me from them that Kessler’s column isn’t “highly reputable” (note: this isn’t the same as “infallible”). But I didn’t spend a long time looking and you may have much better examples. Care to link to a couple of the best ones?
In any case, this is only a lie if Gleb doesn’t consider Kessler’s column highly reputable; and it’s two sentences :-).
(For the avoidance of doubt, I am not intending any defence of Gleb that’s any stronger than “In this specific case, ‘one lie per sentence’ appears to be far from accurate”.)