Monday, July 15, 2024

The Slow-Motion Assassination - by Matt Taibbi

Self-described guardians of democracy spent years creating a lethal atmosphere around Donald Trump - MATT TAIBBI
  • When a populist movement built on frustration over decades of misrule began having electoral success, they created a legend that the backlash was irrational and the fault of one Donald Trump, building him into a figure of colossal art, a super-Hitler. 
  • It became cliché that he was the embodiment of all evil and needed to be stopped “at all costs.” 
  • By late last year, mainstream press organizations were saying legal means had failed, and more or less openly calling for a truly final solution to the Trump problem...
  • He and his supporters have been dehumanized as part of an induced collective madness that’s a bigger crime than the coverup of Biden’s incapacity...

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