BEFORE "BEFORE THE STORM" AND LONG AFTER

I noted in 2005 that Richard Weaver, one of the early conservative pundits, argued that William of Occam was to blame for the sorry state America was in (this in 1947) because the nominalism Occam advanced led to the downfall of Platonic, Transcendental or Supernatural beliefs about the real world.  Weaver specifically claimed that the rise of the scientific approach - one based on discernible facts - has led to the decline of Western Civilization.

Almost 65 years after Weaver published those thoughts, Clayton Morris,an anchor on FAUX News, admitted that in conservative politics, facts don't matter.

MORRIS: If you dive into the weeds a little bit on this global warming thing, you see that it seems that facts are certainly on Huntsman’s side on all of this and fact checkers have come out, we’re actually having our own brain room look look at this right now that any of Perry’s comments don’t seem to hold a lot of water. It doesn’t matter. What’s resonating right now in South Carolina is helping Governor Perry tremendously and he fired back at Huntsman on global warming and gaining traction, facts or not.
(h/t Nicole Belle at Crooks & Liars)