" Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past,” Orwell wrote in 1984. “Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.”59 We are living in the future Orwell warned about; I am living in the 1984 my "

― Sarah Kendzior , Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America