The right enters a post-proof era of election denial (opens in new tab)

The right-wing media’s response to former reality TV personality and conservative candidate Spencer Pratt’s defeat in last week’s nonpartisan primary race for mayor of Los Angeles shows that the right-wing media’s election denial machinery is as strong as ever. But a post-proof era of election denial is dawning as that apparatus moves away from its prior strategy of ginning up myriad deranged conspiracy theories, with major implications for future American elections.