A quick observation from the post-truth era. There’s a political term that I am hearing being thrown about lately, something about “the silent majority.”

In the context of American politics, it goes back to the early 1800s, but was most notably used by one Richard Milhous Nixon, in appealing to Americans who did not protest the war in Southeast Asia that claimed 211,000 U.S. casualties, or did not identify with the growing countercultural movement.