The press must get across to American citizens the crucial importance of this election and the dangers of a Trump win. They don’t need to surrender their journalistic independence to do so or be “in the tank” for Biden or anyone else.

It’s now clearer than ever that Trump, if elected, will use the federal government to go after his political rivals and critics, even deploying the military toward that end. His allies are hatching plans to invoke the Insurrection Act on day one.

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    11 months ago

    “The Public” is not one thing. There’s plenty of people who “understand the risks of a Trump victory.” The fact that half of the public not only doesn’t, but desires a Trump victory is also not the fault of “The Media,” because we all have access to the same media.

    People who are okay with Trump being in charge of anything are fascists, and that’s their fault.

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      It’s more like 1/3 dem, 1/3 fasc, 1/3 doesn’t care until it affects them directly and often still don’t since their world is so insular they have a hard time understanding the decisions of others controls much of how their life operates.