read that headline three times and tell me NYT isn’t just a broken institution, completely ill-equipped to handle Trump era; nytimes.com/2020/12/30/us/…
Hawley is unequivocally calling for election results to be overturned, something no sitting Senator in US history has ever advocated

and NYT politely types it up as “answering Trump’s call.” whatever the F that means
there aren’t two sentences in that 1,100-word NYT story that adequately capture the radical recklessness of Hawley’s actions
to read that ho-hum article you’d think Mitt Romney were president and this was all some arcane squabbling

I.e. total normalization

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