This is incoherent. It would be useful for the New York Times editorial board to lay out which of these executive actions they specifically think Biden shouldn't have done. That they don't bother to do so is telling.
The closest they get is this paragraph about how protections for DREAMers would be more durable if they were legislated. No shit, that's why that's included in Biden's immigration plan. Should he not have done this in the interim? They don't say.
The Times doesn't say that any of these executive actions exceeded Biden's authority, and indeed most of them are repealing previous Trump EOs. Why would the proper mechanism for doing that be legislation?
Why would reversing the ban on trans service members be better settled by legislation? Military composition is an executive function. DADT and its repeal were both via executive action. Truman didn't pass legislation to integrate the armed forces, he did it by executive order.
"No no no, can't allow trans people to serve in the military unless you can get 10 Republican senators to sign off on it" -- The NY Times editorial board
Anyway Steve Doocy loved the editorial so congrats folks, real nice work.
Amerca's Newsroom also appreciated it, getting mentioned seconds before "Ben Shapiro had a great monologue on this on his podcast yesterday."
You can imagine a world where Fox hosts used their unique credibility with their right-wing audience to warn them away from dangerous extremism, but that's not where this is going.
Here's me last August predicting that Fox hosts would inevitably end up claiming that the danger of QAnon was blown out of proportion by Democrats and the media and that it was all an attack on run-of-the-mill Trump supporters. mediamatters.org/qanon-conspira…
You spend years working your way up at CBS and CNN, you jump to Fox News, spend a decade there, you become chief White House correspondent, then finally you get your own afternoon show, which you use to do... this.
.@pbump is correct that the rhetorical move Republicans and right-wing media are using is reminiscent of their "deplorables" backlash. Another case: their freak-out over the 2009 DHS report on right-wing extremism mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/c…
@pbump The report in question was about violent extremism, but right-wing media claimed it was actually an attack on their viewers, a way to silence them.