this is excellent. more journalists need to use this language describing today’s GOP; bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
“The Democratic Party now confronts a predicament familiar to democratic political parties in authoritarian states such as Hungary and Russia.”
reminder: pressrun.media/p/if-trump-wer…
huge pt from Bloomberg piece
<Because neither news media nor the nation’s larger political culture has reckoned with the GOP’s authoritarian evolution, the habitual response is to mislabel GOP authoritarianism as hypocrisy. Calling out hypocrisy is a pointless shaming mechanism>
<Because neither news media nor the nation’s larger political culture has reckoned with the GOP’s authoritarian evolution, the habitual response is to mislabel GOP authoritarianism as hypocrisy. Calling out hypocrisy is a pointless shaming mechanism>
the media point out the obvious hypocrisy and thinks their job is done.
it's actually a pointless exercise bc authoritarians don't care about hypocrisy, since the contradictions are by design
it's actually a pointless exercise bc authoritarians don't care about hypocrisy, since the contradictions are by design
