When a government speaks in absolutes at speed, it trains the public to pick a side at speed. And once people have picked a side, facts aren’t information anymore. They’re ammunition.

This report says some people inside Trump’s own orbit are spooked by how fast the administration branded the Renee Good shooting “domestic terrorism” and how that kind of instant-labeling can poison an investigation before it even has a chance to breathe.

This is the narrative war problem in miniature: once the first storyline is blasted out at volume, corrections don’t “replace” it, they just become part of the tribal argument around it.
If your audience is trained to treat politics like sports, then evidence isn’t a compass. It’s just a new bat.

Media Matters lays out a simple pattern: the administration put out a confident story fast, Fox ran it hard, and even when video and reporting started poking holes in the claims, much of Fox’s programming snapped back into “stick with the official line” mode.