You think this is bad? Just wait until Biden's Dem numbers go down a few points. The onslaught of "Is Biden losing the left" and simultaneous (!) "Is Biden losing rank and file Democrats" and "Will Biden's African American support decline next?" pieces will make our blood boil!
Yes. I wrote a piece about Biden and the incredible job the administration is doing. It was met with more question than accepting accomplishments are being made. I no longer write about Trump that much and the audience has slowly started to accept this, however most are occupied rightly with what is happening in terms of the impeachment. Journalists and consumers of information alike need to define a new “normal.” Or we are one step away from setting up a Mar a Lago bureau.
as soon as we all let the press get away with prioritizing entertainment over information, this was inevitable.
Biden supporters aren't a nonstop circus. they're not crowding into steamy restaurants for long dining dates or screaming in grocery clerks' faces because they've been asked to wear a mask. and i have yet to see an "essential worker" flying an 8-foot BIDEN flag from the 40-year-old Datsun that's their only transportation to their $8.70/hour job at Hardee's.
boring. sad. getting a real story is almost like real work. who knew.
The continued coverage of the Trump voter is infuriating, especially while watching what the Trump voter did to the US capital. Yesterday I read that Richard Haas has changed his party affiliation. He joins 140 thousand such defections and counting. That’s the story. Trump has taken over the once grand old party without so much as a shot fired.
Hey Eric — you just swallowed some Trump supporter propaganda! They like to inflate Trump's votes from 74 million to 75 million and deflate Biden's to 80 million. The figure for Biden should be 81,300,000 votes.
It seems completely obvious to me that the subtext of all those "Republicans still like Trump" stories was "...despite the fact that's he's really bad." And reporters kept going back to write those stories because they (or whoever gave them the assignments) kept waiting for Trump's support to collapse as "normal" Americans were supposed to wake up after each new scandal. Once that happened (it was never going to happen), the both sides tension would evaporate and "Trump is awful" would be an objective fact they could use an assumption in their writing while maintaining their treasured neutrality.
Im a reader from germany and I LOVE your newsletter and that you are calling out the beltway press. When I look to the German newspapers some of then are the same. We had endless articles about the forgotten men in the German east who turned right wing to AFD because they were „concerned citizens“.
I had a thought and this is the perfect place to ask about it-The beltway-rati all explain the cowardice of Republicans to stand up to Trump in strictly political terms-if they don't support Trump they'll get primaried (from the right) and those in heavily gerrymandered districts need not worry. My thought is this: Is it not possible for a Republican to primary or be primaried from the CENTER? What am I missing? It seems to me that if a current house/Senate member stands up, shows courage and morality he/she stands a better chance of winning -and that an attack from the right might even help differentiate between good and evil. And a Gym Jordan-type might be more vulnerable to a softer, truer conservative-and not an even crazier one.
To be fair, Democrats are likelier to end up dividing over some issues, because Democrats are capable of independent thought. To understand republicans, you need only watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl2iIHRE1ng
You think this is bad? Just wait until Biden's Dem numbers go down a few points. The onslaught of "Is Biden losing the left" and simultaneous (!) "Is Biden losing rank and file Democrats" and "Will Biden's African American support decline next?" pieces will make our blood boil!
Yes. I wrote a piece about Biden and the incredible job the administration is doing. It was met with more question than accepting accomplishments are being made. I no longer write about Trump that much and the audience has slowly started to accept this, however most are occupied rightly with what is happening in terms of the impeachment. Journalists and consumers of information alike need to define a new “normal.” Or we are one step away from setting up a Mar a Lago bureau.
as soon as we all let the press get away with prioritizing entertainment over information, this was inevitable.
Biden supporters aren't a nonstop circus. they're not crowding into steamy restaurants for long dining dates or screaming in grocery clerks' faces because they've been asked to wear a mask. and i have yet to see an "essential worker" flying an 8-foot BIDEN flag from the 40-year-old Datsun that's their only transportation to their $8.70/hour job at Hardee's.
boring. sad. getting a real story is almost like real work. who knew.
If my local letters to the editor are anything to go by, R's changing to IND's might be the next big thing for the national press to ignore.
The continued coverage of the Trump voter is infuriating, especially while watching what the Trump voter did to the US capital. Yesterday I read that Richard Haas has changed his party affiliation. He joins 140 thousand such defections and counting. That’s the story. Trump has taken over the once grand old party without so much as a shot fired.
Hey Eric — you just swallowed some Trump supporter propaganda! They like to inflate Trump's votes from 74 million to 75 million and deflate Biden's to 80 million. The figure for Biden should be 81,300,000 votes.
It seems completely obvious to me that the subtext of all those "Republicans still like Trump" stories was "...despite the fact that's he's really bad." And reporters kept going back to write those stories because they (or whoever gave them the assignments) kept waiting for Trump's support to collapse as "normal" Americans were supposed to wake up after each new scandal. Once that happened (it was never going to happen), the both sides tension would evaporate and "Trump is awful" would be an objective fact they could use an assumption in their writing while maintaining their treasured neutrality.
Im a reader from germany and I LOVE your newsletter and that you are calling out the beltway press. When I look to the German newspapers some of then are the same. We had endless articles about the forgotten men in the German east who turned right wing to AFD because they were „concerned citizens“.
I had a thought and this is the perfect place to ask about it-The beltway-rati all explain the cowardice of Republicans to stand up to Trump in strictly political terms-if they don't support Trump they'll get primaried (from the right) and those in heavily gerrymandered districts need not worry. My thought is this: Is it not possible for a Republican to primary or be primaried from the CENTER? What am I missing? It seems to me that if a current house/Senate member stands up, shows courage and morality he/she stands a better chance of winning -and that an attack from the right might even help differentiate between good and evil. And a Gym Jordan-type might be more vulnerable to a softer, truer conservative-and not an even crazier one.
To be fair, Democrats are likelier to end up dividing over some issues, because Democrats are capable of independent thought. To understand republicans, you need only watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl2iIHRE1ng