It is enormously frustrating to know, as an evolutionary biologist with experience from the trenches of the creationist wars on science, that nobody on Biden’s team nor CNN’s seem to be aware of the Gish Gallop, 30y after Eugenie Scott described it and years of Trump deploying it!
You can win, but it takes a great deal of preparation. You have to know what they're going to lie about ahead of time, anticipate it, rank their lies from least to most important, and craft *concise* rebuttals to their most important lies. Key word is concise, you don't have time for everything
Yes. It's extremely rare to win, and the wins have meaningful effects only in very specific situations (which can of course be exceptionally important from legal and policy perspectives).
