Democratic Women Say They Could Kick Trump’s Butt. And They’re Right!
When Trump goes too far, many of them feign ignorance. This is especially true of President Mike Johnson, who almost always pleads ignorance when confronted by the press about Trump’s misdeeds or the consequences of Trump’s actions. Trump is literally the alpha and omega of Republican thinking: the party’s agenda in 2020 and 2024 boiled down to “whatever Trump thinks it should be at this moment.”
The media is also guilty. In the past, far-right media was limited to AM radio, Fox News, and Breitbart. Today there is a whole ecosphere of madness that is only getting worse. Pseudo-intellectuals like Ben Shapiro are disappearing, and Nazi crackpots like Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens are ascendant. The MAGA population, misinformed to begin with, now lives in a separate reality that has nothing to do with ours. This reality is shaped by Trump, confirmed by Republicans and further amplified by the media.
It used to be that mainstream media could be counted on to at least pretend to be centrist. They are now under attack, or already institutionally captured, by Trump’s billionaire associates. Viktor Orbán advised the Republicans to “have their own media,” and they did so. Larry Ellison’s CBS News is undermined by Bari Weiss. The property of Jeff Bezos Washington Post has devoured itself and is now primarily an editorial vehicle singing the praises of the billionaire class. The New York Times has written a series of bestselling articles about transgender people, without disclosing the beliefs of the hate groups he cites, and he is cleaning out the administration in a sensible way.
