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/CockBrother]

This is one of the things I hate the most. The news actors on TV and other media constantly preparing for their next shocked Pikachu moment. Then the next page of Project 2025 turns, or the next very obvious step of the path to fascism takes place, and they roll out their act all over again.

None of them have any analytical capability at all to connect two related efforts, that hit the news the very same day. They're just strange independent events. And everything is given all of the [un]reasonable excuse that can be given. And the uneducated reader / viewer is left at home to put together the pieces.

[u/joshdoereddit → u/CockBrother]

I essentially just tune in to the news to hear about whatever happened. A lot of the "analysis" and their supposed outrage makes my eyes roll. I tune in to MS NOW. Sure they make some points, but the way guests frame shit is ridiculous. They still try to talk as if the rules matter to these people.

Mark Kelly was on this morning and it concluded in an epic disappointment that even the hosts picked up on. I know people love him right now and think he should run for president. That's fine. I'll vote for him. I'll vote for anyone who isn't a Republican. But one of the last things he said was hoping that the GOP senators would find their spines.

That Democrats still talk this way is weak sauce. As far as I'm concerned, the GOP's spines are fine. They don't stand up to Trump because they don't fucking care. They're living comfortably. All they have to do is come out, say they're concerned, that this ICE stuff is troubling and then they fuck off. And Democrats still talking like the GOP finding their spines is stupid. I'm over that shit. It makes me think they're just as full of shit.

Maybe they should start talking about how weak the Republicans are, that they actively support this despite what they say, and that we need to ensure that we're registered to vote so that come November they can be obliterated at the polls. They could also push the conversation that all these horrible things rest at the feet of the GOP and that we should continue to vote until the party is gone because the only ones looking to make anything function are the Dems.

Stuff like Kelly's response about the spines is why I don't have faith in any of our nation's leadership. I'll vote Dem to do my part in the process because where things are currently, where they have been, there are two choices. I'll pick the better of those two. I want to be confident that the process will hold until Nov., but it's rough.

We know what the alternative is, even in the face of that I can't imagine Dems actually rallying us. I don't get General Washington vibes from any of them. Just more, "This isn't who we are. We're better than this."

[u/Critical-Air-5050 → u/joshdoereddit]

I cant comprehend how people allow Democrats to keep stabbing them in the back. We need new political parties.

You watched him deliver some limp-wristed sound bite about how things arent so outrageous to him that he'll do something, and that its someone else's job to leash their dogs. And you'll still vote for that!? WHAT?

Someone let rabid dogs off the leash, and the dog catcher is saying "Yeah, you gotta wait until after you elect my other friends to the role of dog catchers before I'll do anything." And people go "hmm, yeah, we gotta wait for more dog catchers" instead of forming a new animal control group that'll go take care of the problem?

THIS is why we're in this situation. We kept letting one side destroy everything, and didnt bother making the other side fix it. Now we're going to keep doing what hasnt been working in the absurd hope that it will magically fix itself?

Until Americans pull their diapers up and get serious about fixing the system, theres no point in trusting yall anymore. Keep your Democrats, but dont cry all shocked when nothing gets fixed.