This is from a recent ABC news article.
It's a place where the tools of reason — fact, logic, data, consequences, accountability — aren't always useful currency.
Those of us who live in the "reality-based community" may find that difficult to comprehend but we are witnessing the fulfilment of a prophecy made in Washington two decades ago.
The term "reality-based community" comes from a
2004 article by journalist Ron Suskind in The New York Times magazine. This quote in it was attributed to an "anonymous aide" working for then President George W. Bush:
At the time, that quote caused jaws to drop en masse in Washington. It seemed shockingly megalomaniacal, but it was also incomprehensible that a senior White House official could believe that facts and objective reality didn't really matter (the source was rumoured to be Bush's chief-of-staff Karl Rove, something Rove has denied).