One other bit that is helping - reporting the percentage of Republican support for Trump, civic violence, etc, without mentioning the actual proportion of Americans, overnormalizes the opinions that will drive democracy into the grave.
The proportion of Americans identifying as Republican # has dropped 5-10% since 2005, to an avg ~26% in 2021 (same trend for Dems).
OMG 80% of Republicans believe…
Is really
20% of adult Americans.
Not reporting THAT alongside every partisan percentage is malpractice.
Reporting trends absent that context hyperinflates the power of that fraction of society, both normalizing and enhancing fear and stasis, fomenting distrust and increasing our isolation from our neighbors.
Truth is, 80% of Americans aren’t willing to die for Trump.
IOW, since they only reference the estate, not the decedent - if he was actually whisked away by Barr &| Mossad and surfaces in 10 years, would this safely serve to indemnify all his powerful 'clients' in perpetuity
...in a way that victims would not have agreed to if they were aware he was not deceased (if that were indeed the case), as the potential for his harm to others would not have come to a fixed end as they believed?
What we really need: legislation to permit any citizen to force those who they have reason to believe engaged in facilitating sexual predation into court.
Allowing others to file suit relieves survivors of the initial burden.