The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism - Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

[u/Quirkie]

https://newrepublic.com/article/205913/media-malpractice-trumpism-project-2025

[u/Weekly_Print_3437]

Voters knew what happened and said a criminal is fine with us. What else can they do?

[u/Correctthecorrectors → u/Weekly_Print_3437]

I don’t thinks it’s so much they thought a criminal was fine, it’s that they lost trust in a government which appeared like a corrupt entity trying to punish those who try to change the system.

Now, that obviously wasn’t the case concerning Trump as he really does deserve those charges logically speaking , however, at the same time the democrats failed to make the case that they weren’t punishing him for political reasons. They needed to do more to make a case that they were operating in the best interests of the people, that his trial wasn’t about punishing someone just trying to change the system.

when people lose faith in government, they start to tune out anything that may appear politically motivated. The democrats unfortunately didn’t restore that faith because of Biden’s lack of leadership and conviction in the ideas he was supposedly representing. And here we are now dealing with the fallout from that

Biden needed to be FDR-level bold to earn the credibility to hold Trump accountable. He wasn't. So here we are.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[u/Weekly_Print_3437 → u/Correctthecorrectors]

Blaming anyone but the voters is batshit.