I think there are alternate facts. Both left and right have sources of information and narratives as to what is helping this country and what is harming it.
Alternative facts are like alternative religions. Alternative orientations and life goals
They are, among other things, ideologies in the sense that they take experiences and narrativize them. It's important, and I think you get this already, is that the symptom of our time is that there's no getting outside of ideology. We can draw from Zizek for example, that the idea that we can be outside of ideology as blinding ourselves to whichever ideology we are using. That's sort of the final step and the bridge between post-modernism towards meta-modernism.
