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| American journalism may be broken for good |
Despite their best attempts to claim their aims are in the interest of fairness, there is no way a President who has lied over 18,000 times in just under four years, has killed more Americans with his incompetence than any of the forty-four before him with his disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic, has suggested drugs as cures that are known to kill, has suggested people inject bleach, has retweeted a tweet in which a former U.S. candidate for President was called a skank, has accused multiple people of murder without a shred of evidence, and has let his racist flag fly again and again is anything resembling normal. And it is beneath the dignity of everything America has ever stood for.
When Bill Clinton was impeached, dozens of newspapers and TV commentators called for his removal from office. Clinton had an ill-advised affair with a staffer. Trump has killed 100,000 Americans because he flat doesn't give a damn and exactly one newspaper in American has called for his removal from office (The Los Angeles Times, for those wondering). There is nothing that allows the two failures to even be remotely comparable. And the lack of inaction toward Trump's heinous actions is rooted in nothing more than cowardice.
Edmund Burke is credited with saying (though it's actually a paraphrase of a letter he wrote), "All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Nothing is exactly what our national media as done in the face of Trump's unfitness for office.
But I'd be hard pressed to label the people in our national media doing nothing in the face of Donald Trump's massive failures in the White House as "good."
Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee
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