Reality does play a role

Peggy Noonan makes a good comment:

The interview reflects the weird inability of so many in political leadership now to acknowledge the role in life of . . . reality.

However, she fails to recognize that politicians only reflect the culture. Anybody educated at Columbia and Harvard has been taught in countless ways that "we make up our own narrative" is the true definition of freedom. It's just Nietzscheanism for sensitive souls.