Facts

Jeane Kirkpatrick was the US ambassador to the UN during the height of the cold war. The goal was to defeat communism and it sometimes found the CIA involved in overthrowing governments like Guatemala and Iran plus disrupting things in countries like Chili. Kirkpatrick famously said, he may be a dictator but he's our dictator. Remnants of such thinking remain today with ideas like he may be an oligarch but he is our oligarch or he may be a fact checker but he's our fact checker. Point is to be your own fact checker and do not trust the government.