It's when truthiness moves beyond the realm of entertainment that it's a potential peril.
What's remarkable is how much fictionalization plays a role in almost every national debate. It's as if the country is living in a permanent state of suspension of disbelief.
It says everything about the Democrats' ineptitude that when they spin fiction, they are incapable of meeting even the low threshold of truthiness needed to make it fly in this lax cultural environment.