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They used a water hose from a nearby home to spray down the brush.

Firefighters had arrived; but without fire hydrants around his property, they were left with his garden hose.

I had traveled to Montana to observe and participate in the American democratic process, the way most Americans engage with American democracy—not in union halls or public forums, but on the receiving end of a one-way fire hose of paid propaganda and professional manipulation, rendered in 30-second bursts of flickering blue light, largely in isolation, via television.

Standing in front of a green cinder block garage papered in Trump-Pence signs, a bright yellow garden hose within arm’s reach, the once-revered mayor of New York announced plans to file lawsuits in multiple states and painted Philadelphia, a Democratic stronghold in a pivotal swing state, as a den of corruption where the election was being stolen from Trump in broad daylight.

Truth and facts vary wildly depending on where you get your news, which is made all the more complicated by the fire hose of information on social media—some of it fake, much of it sensationalized.