The gloves need to come off for the media. To keep applying their old templates to this administration is harming the country.
Every time they treat a tweet or hateful remark as a sane policy statement, they legitimize unprecedented behavior. Further, focusing on these individual outrageous utterances ends up being a dissection of a tree instead of the forest.
There is also the facile and intellectually cowardly practice of framing a story in how the common man may react. "This action may hurt Trump with hispanics..." I don't give a shit about your obsession with predicting election results. Cover the actual story. Have the editorial balls to call something what it is when you see it instead of bringing in lying Trump apologists to "balance" the true perception with outright lies and spin.
Hitler didn't deserve a voice on a journalism panel. He was a malignant NAZI trading in hate and a racially pure wet dream. Sorry, 'Dolf, you're not welcome at the table to simply lie. The same with Trumpists. If you can find someone who is something more than a propagandist, bring him/her on.
Writing this, I recognize that it's not actually the job of journalists to move the populace to action. They are to serve by reporting. I doubt the foul, amoral element of the electorate will be moved to change their disposition, but that doesn't release journalists from their charge.
The GOP stands in opposition to the world. The international aspect popped up in the climate thread. Their dissembling opposition to recognizing the science of the warming threat reflects their overall narrow interest in serving moneyed interests whose own narrow interests seem to be short term gain.
This post becomes a manifesto. I've been drinking on a Saturday. I prefer the recruiting board, but I come over here and see that the river of vomit continues to flow from the White House. The malignancy must be attacked.
Impeach this fucker. E'erbody stand up and state their position. Let time and the people sort it out over time.
Maybe we don't bring the cocksucker down, but let's make our mover nevertheless.
I wish I were younger. I think I would take to the main mall or a street corner. I feel like I'm watching a bully beat the fuck out of a girl without moving against him. Overlong posts aren't enough.