The American right’s entire agenda now is driven by a singular narrative: Liberals are evil. Not merely bad, but beyond-the-pale foul and unholy, demonically possessed and intent on destroying the nation. So all of their talking points and conspiracy theories revolve around generating fresh iterations of this narrative, whether it’s the QAnon claims that a cabal of globalists are abducting children and draining them of blood, or the more mainstream Fox News hysteria about (to use the most recent instances) “critical race theory,” or LGBTQ “groomers,” or children’s hospitals “mutilating” trans youth. And because they believe in the “greater truth” of their narrative, they have no compunction about lying in the service of spreading it.