by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
America is careening towards autocracy and from what I can tell of the mainstream American press — we’re totally fucked. They continue to suffer from a bad case of “both siderism.” They continue to frame EVERYTHING in the context of how this or that bad thing is “bad for Joe Biden.”
There’s no sense of…uhhh…YIKES?
And Trump has already made it clear that he’s coming for the usually center-Left MSM. I just don’t get it. It’s like we’ve just collectively fucking given up. Though, I will note that the press coverage of the march to war in the late 1850s was pretty much the same.
A great book about how everyone “got woke” once the Civil War started is William Safire’s “Freedom.” It’s a tome, but it’s really, really good. If you want to understand what I mean by “Radical Moderates” read that novel. It pretty much is all about how Radical Moderates came to be in the lead up to the slaves being freed.
Anyway. It definitely seems that, at the moment, we’re fucking doomed. Batten down the hatches, ’cause the moment Trump is in power again, he’s gunning for freedom of speech because he’s incredibly dumb and lazy and doesn’t realize he’s setting a trap for himself.
