Mark Halperin

Because the red tribe is going to say, we don't care about the facts.

We just want our tribe to win.

And of course, President Trump has benefited from that quite a bit.

And the third is, there's so much information out there that it's very hard to know what's true.

Back in the old days, if it was in the New York Times, a big investigative piece on somebody, everybody just treated it as true.

Now, there's stories all over the place.

There's social media all over the place.

And so understanding this zeitgeist environment of who survives and who doesn't, very complicated business.

So back in 92, we were at the dawn of all of this.

We didn't have the internet.

We didn't have social media.

But there was more media, and there was a different standard.

And one of the theories I've had, I'm not the only one who's said this,

But the end of the Cold War made it more open season on people in public life.

Because during the Cold War, there was kind of a, I'll say, gentleman's agreement because it was mostly gentlemen.

But there was an agreement amongst elites.

You know, you can't go knocking out the president of the United States for stuff in his or her background because we've got to fight the Russians, the Soviets.

And we can't change the power structure based on –

personal issues or economic scandals.

And so that changed because the Cold War ended at the end of the Bush administration, Reagan administration, it was ending.