While I'm not a big fan of the guy, what Tony Shaffer (a former defense intelligence officer who became a Trump adviser) says here on The Duran is right on the money.
He describes an America that's now led by its own propaganda, where 3-letter agencies have become unholy allies of the political class to become "reinforcers of narratives", rather than seeking truth from facts.
Which is very dangerous and goes a long way to explain much of the insanity coming out of the US right now: never buy your own propaganda, otherwise policy then becomes completely out of touch, based on ideology rather than the reality of the world. Which means it's at best ineffective and at worst utterly destructive. We're seeing this with Russia, with China, and of course most poignantly right now with Gaza.
The sad truth however, and where I'd probably disagree with Shaffer, is that there is no better camp in that regard in the US right now. Both Trump and Biden are similarly deluded, alongside their networks of operatives. They can see the other side is completely propagandized, and can speak quite cogently to that as Shaffer illustrates, but they can rarely see it in themselves.
William J. Casey, the Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987, once said that "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false". I'm afraid we're pretty much there, including with regard to themselves.
School is key to everything the American public believing being false.
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1768105020791353569
School is key to everything the American public believing being false.