Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.