"That's why there have been so many, Here's-How-Trump-Dropped-The-Ball process stories, followed by Here's-How-Trump-Can-Fix-The-Problem pieces. Both narratives miss the disturbing reality of what's been unfolding for the last five months — Trump doesn't care. Period."
he's a monster. Beltway press has spent 4 yrs trying not to say that.
“Journalists either can't or won't wrap their heads around the existential crisis America faces, that the President of the United States is actively disinterested in protecting its citizens. “
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a thread after seeing lots of timid news coverage of Trump/GOP's attack on free fair elections this week; pressrun.media/p/trumps-elect…
first POTUS in 240 yrs to refuse to accept election results, and GOP supports it. Instead of vivid portraits of a party abandoning any principles as GOP lawmakers obediently fall in line behind Trump's nasty behavior, we get coverage about how savvy Republicans are being
One CNN report this week even suggested Republicans had “no choice” but to back Trump’s election sabotage.
Republicans do have a choice — they can support the rule of law and denounce the attempt to do lasting damage to our democracy.
“It’s likely being done because journalists are nervous about detailing the GOP’s radical and autocratic ways, because then they can no longer present Republicans as mainstream players.”
Trump claiming the election was stolen is a “false narrative” according to NYT, which continues to embarrass itself by refusing to Trump lies “lies,” even ones directed at sabotaging free, fair elections; nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/…
the Normalizing Olympics
this garbage, “false narrative” school of journalism was created for Trump. and newsroom has ever been able to explain why