"This election is about JD Vance."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Jason Stanley speak with Ali Velshi about how "Trump's campaign rhetoric has become so extreme that analysts and historians are openly comparing him to Hitler and Mussolini. And yet the American public seems to treat him with the same semi-seriousness that has characterized his entire political career."

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #immigrants
/11

'Why aren't people more alarmed?': As Trump becomes more extreme, Americans get used to it

Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric has become so extreme that analysts and historians are openly comparing him to Hitler and Mussolini. And yet the American public seems to treat him with the same semi-seriousness that has characterized his entire political career. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University history professor, and Jason Stanley, Yale University philosophy professor, discuss with Ali Velshi. Watch more Alex Wagner Tonight clips on YouTube at MSNBC.com/Alex 

MSNBC.com (www.msnbc.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Noting that Trump's niece Mary Trump is warning us that Trump's mental decline is steep and dangerous for all of us if he's elected, Dean Obeidallah writes:

"Corporate media covered President Biden’s potential cognitive issues non-stop—but when it comes to Trump they are giving him a pass. We know that’s not happenstance, but rather a decision made by corporate media executives—many of whom who are supporting Trump."

#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #MediaFail
/12

Mary Trump is warning about Donald’s dementia--yet corporate media still refuses to cover it!

This is by design!

(deanobeidallah.substack.com)

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy

Analysts and historians maybe, but the New York Times, from whom most corporate media take their cues has two young reporters to sanewash everything he does.

If you look at what Michael Bender and Michael Gold have written on Trump it is a remarkable cleansing of his bizarre, profane and erratic behavior. Only when called out and shamed do they in any way report on the reality of Trump's insanity, and then only in euphemisms.

Michael C. Bender - The New York Times

Michael C. Bender is a Times political correspondent covering Donald J. Trump, the Make America Great Again movement and other federal and state elections.

(www.nytimes.com)

Michael Gold - The New York Times

Michael Gold is a political correspondent for The Times covering the campaigns of Donald J. Trump and other candidates in the 2024 presidential elections.

(www.nytimes.com)

[thad@brontosin.space]

@wdlindsy I appreciate the analysis but I think it's remarkably naive to suggest the purpose of law enforcement was ever to make all people feel safe.

I live in a county that elected Joe Arpaio six times. The notion that law enforcement's primary purpose would be to terrorize brown people, with the enthusiastic support of a decisive portion of the electorate, isn't new to me. But seeing it on a national scale is.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Thad What about Snyder's comment indicates that he imagines law enforcement was every about making all of us feel safe? I don't read him to be saying that at all. I read him to be saying that we maintain — against much evidence, I think he'd say as an informed historian — that law enforcement exists to make all of us safe. And choosing conditions that target some of us while privileging others of us makes us all unsafe — as we've seen time and again in our history.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mastodonmigration You're exactly right about that.

[compassionnow@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Lather, rinse, repeat. It’s an exponential curve … the normalization began with Reagan and the change was slow for a long time. In 2016 it started a hockey stick increase. Now … ugh.

[compassionnow@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy *2016*: "In other words, just like the overuse of historical analogies should not make us too quick to embrace them, a search for a perfect ideological replica of interwar Fascism should not blind us to its ugly re-emergence in 2016."

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(www.salon.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CompassionNow Yes, that's an excellent observation, I thought, too.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CompassionNow Well-stated. Excellent.

[ambulard@fanglitch.space]

@wdlindsy Among other things, too many of the people who personally remember Hitler and Mussolini and actually lived through the things they did are gone now. Living memory is a powerful protective force, until it's not.

[zhizhu@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy

Surprised that more isn't being said about Trump calling his own supporters lazy fat pigs that have to be chivvied off the couch to vote. (You'd think they'd be offended, but they applauded. #Weird )

But yeah. That quote from #HeatherCoxRichardson about Trump's increasing incapacity is dead on.

Trump is sundowning, and his handlers are trying to hide it.

#Trump #IsTrumpSenile? #Sundowning #Dementia #Meme #Memes #Quote #Quotes #Politics #USPol

[zhizhu@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy

Trump has been grooming both his followers and the corporate media to accept his unacceptable behavior for years.

It's no surprised that the #media is letting Trump grab 'em by the pussy and not objecting. They've been groomed to accept it. And the media, in turn, grooms the public to accept it.

The #FourthEstate is failing America.

#Trump #News #Press #Journalism #US #USA #USPol #Politics

[nosmaharba@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy he must not know Jill Stein has her own direct line to Putin

[drwho@hackers.town]

@wdlindsy So, just like last time.

[originlbookgirl@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy This is why I can't get my head around any Latinos supporting that guy.
#Republicans hate non-white people.
You're dumb as a brick if you vote for people who want to deport you even if you were born in the United States.

[gdtrfb@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy It's what happens when you cut funding to public education

[snigdha@mas.to]

@wdlindsy when your running partner is JD Vance, it's probably best not to mention couches.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@snigdha Touché. Cleverly noted.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@gdtrfb You're absolutely right. That's key to the entire mess the nation is in now. One of our two major parties has sought to dismantle public education for years now, has kept education underfunded, has impeded students' ability to get all the education they want. Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.