The Trump-loving radio host’s latest book masks what her ideology is really about. Published in .theamericanconservative.com/ October 31, 2017 During the Paleolithic pre-Internet age when I was a young operative on Capitol Hill, a favorite putdown of Democrats was to call them limousine liberals. The incongruity of rich people professing concern for the poor seemed…
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The Trump Era: No One Can Stay Above the Fray
shed in Moyers & Company (link to article) Trump debases the country, and we will all have to get our hands dirty. Shape without form, shade without color, paralyzed force, gesture without motion. — T.S. ELIOT, THE HOLLOW MEN (1925) It has been six years since I last saw Capitol Hill and the Republican Party in the rearview…
When Should We Use the ‘T’ Word?
Published in Washington Monthly ( link to article) The mainstream media is skittish about invoking treason. The presidency of Donald J. Trump, with its ludicrous inauguration crowd estimates, 4 AM tweets, and non-stop gaffes, is sometimes difficult for grownups to take seriously in any sort of sustained way. But with the allegation that Jared Kushner,…
How the Chattering Class Bully-Worships Trump
Published in Moyers & Company (link to article) ‘I, for One, Welcome Our New Insect Overlords!’ How the Chattering Class Bully-Worships Trump Claiming the media doesn’t “get” Trump is just another sorry excuse for his dangerous disregard of truth and democracy. Newsman Kent Brockman welcomes his new insect overlords in the “Deep Space Homer” episode…
The Media’s Latest Campaign to Normalize Trump
Published in Washington Monthly ( link to article) After the Syria strikes, the press has mistakenly found new respect for Trump. One of the more annoying features of the most annoying presidential campaign in history was the mainstream media’s attempts to normalize candidate Donald Trump. Possibly this treatment arose because the press didn’t initially take…