Today we saw the birth & death of a coronavirus news cycle suggesting - contrary to common sense - that the Biden Admin had to “start from scratch” on a vaccine rollout since the Trump Admin had done nothing.
Curious who bought the spin? I’ve got some thoughts👇
@mj_lee broke the story today for @CNN, who has shared it countless times and mentioned it dozens of times on air, citing (you guessed it!) unnamed sources.
Only problem is, Dr. Fauci shot down the claim today at today’s press conference.
Seems he’s got a reason to know.
Of course, before the story was rejected outright by the most believable person involved in all this, lots of @CNN’s main voices jumped in about how big of a deal it was. This is what we call expectation setting.
My hot take is that what the last four years has proven is that our democracy isn’t actually fragile and is in fact substantially more sturdy and resilient than most of us thought.
My worries are far more with the social fabric of this country and less with our democracy itself.
I’ll flesh this out as a full piece at some point.
At the risk of sounding like an elitist I do think that one of the main problems facing the conservative cause these days is all the stupid people in positions of consequence.
Also obviously some of this is flip but I think it’s something conservatives don’t actually talk enough about. I’m not saying elect egghead experts out of touch with real people. But we’ve got some real intellectual lightweights in our midst.
Yeah something tells me I’m gonna mute this one sooner rather than later.