Peter Kafka in an interview with journalism critic Jay Rosen recently wrote at Vox, Trump’s denial of his coronavirus failings will be “one of the biggest propaganda battles in American history”: Americans don’t trust the government, and they don’t trust the media. That trend has been evident for years, but the Trump era has accelerated it. Now … Read more
Sanjana Karanth at Huffington Post gets it exactly right. Trump Defends Right-Wing Protesters Fighting Coronavirus Restrictions: ‘These Are Great People’: President Donald Trump on Sunday defended right-wing protesters he has encouraged to rally against state coronavirus restrictions. At Sunday’s White House coronavirus briefing ― events the president has often used to campaign and push misinformation … Read more
President Donald Trump cannot wait until medical science says it is reasonably safe to begin opening up the economy. He announced on Thursday a plan to reopen the economy (below) as early as today if some irresponsible red states wish. There is a fatal flaw in Trump’s reckless plan to reopen the economy: there has … Read more
Famous last words from our “Dear Leader”: Feb. 26: “So we’re at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list, so that we’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So … Read more
Donald Trump’s “shadow cabinet,” the on air personalities at Fox News aka Trump TV, daily tell the president what to think and then he faithfully parrots back their talking points on Twitter and in his public statements. Normally an authoritarian demagogue tells his propagandists what they should say, but in this case, the tale is … Read more