Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.
Of course, this exactly describes what the progressive/liberal/marxist/communist/facist movement that is the democrat/moveon party of the US has done. True to the falsehood propagation techniques of their mentor, Goebbels, they will now attribute their own reprehensible characteristics to the betters who oppose them.