Napoleon Bonaparte once observed that “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” The problem today is that there is little agreement on what the lies mean when lies attributed to one party are being used by the other party to achieve the same goal.
For months, President Biden, Democratic politicians, and some in the media have hammered away at "Trump’s Big Lie" of the 2020 election. They insist that former President Trump began months before the election to plant a false narrative that changes in election laws were part of an effort to "steal" the election. However, in the last few weeks, Biden and others are pushing their own "Big Lie" that state election laws are now being changed to steal the 2022 and 2024 elections. What is most striking is how these claims are detached from the actual laws themselves — the power of this claim being based entirely upon its repetition rather than its foundation.
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