At the vice-presidential debate, the CBS News moderators fact-checked one of JD Vance\u2019s lies\u2014and that was all it took to trigger an\xa0epic attack\xa0on CBS from Donald Trump and his MAGA allies. Which highlights a larger story: The degree to which Trump\u2019s campaign is built on an immense superstructure of endless, shameless lying. Bullying the media into\xa0not\xa0fact checking Trump and Vance is essential to that project. We talked to Jamison Foser, who writes about the media and the right on his\xa0Finding Gravity Substack, about the ways our institutions are capitulating to authoritarian attacks and threats\u2014and what can be done in response.\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices