Hunch: the border narrative has grown legs because of a reflex, among news pros, to expect the parties to maintain a thermodynamic balance.
Trump’s crisis was COVID; now, with vaccines, that crisis is waning. A crisis for Dems is simply a matter of ti– … hm, what’s this on Fox?
Trump’s crisis was COVID; now, with vaccines, that crisis is waning. A crisis for Dems is simply a matter of ti– … hm, what’s this on Fox?
https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1374112580780879874
(I don’t believe COVID has waned — but the vaccines, along with predictions of booming growth, have produced a “light at the end of the tunnel” narrative that may be influencing the extent to which political journos continue to give it crisis coverage.) nytimes.com/2021/03/13/ups…
Schools are laboring to open, viral spread has increased in multiple states, and most Americans have yet to get vaccinated — but the zeitgeist in Beltway newsrooms appears to be “new crisis, who dis?”
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1374079977549934592
As I said: “New crisis, who dis?”
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1374152419496448000
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