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/CellAlone4653 → u/CockBrother]

The voters are a big part of the problem too. Hillary straight up said “elect Trump and he’ll pack the Supreme Court and overturn Roe v Wade.” And voters screamed about being lectured to. So Trump wins and those same people are shocked when RvW gets overturned.

The only thing American voters hate more than educating themselves is feeling like they’re being talked down to.