Thursday, May 4, 2023

QOTD -- Fascist Enablers

 

"It’s time to call a fascist a fascist and — speaking of CNN’s upcoming attempt to rehabilitate Trump with a MAGA-mostly-audience “Town Hall” moderated by a reporter who got her start with Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller [Kaitlan Collins]— it’s time to call fascist enablers exactly what they are, too."-- Thom Hartmann concluding an op/ed on "CNN's attempt to rehabilitate Trump..."  If anyone believed the "mainstream media" learned a lesson from its coverage of the Malignant Loser, from his foul 2016 campaign, to his January 6 coup, up to the present day, where he's often treated as a "normal" candidate and not an existential threat to democracy.  That goes, by the way, for his MAGAt / Christofascist/ Shooters party as well.