Pass the Popcorn, Please

The efforts by the Democratic Party and much of the press, including CNN and The New York Times, to discredit Trump, as if our problems are embodied in him, are futile. The smug, self-righteousness of this crusade against Trump only contributes to the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics. This crusade attempts to reduce a social, economic and political crisis to the personality of Trump. It is accompanied by a refusal to confront and name the corporate forces responsible for our failed democracy. This collusion with the forces of corporate oppression neuters the press and Trump’s mainstream critics.--CH

I hear and read a lot of this from Trump critics. Based on their conviction, one would think that before Trump rose out of the muck America was a sweetheart ideal located somewhere in the West, an idyllic Eden where no wrong was ever attempted, no murder was ever committed, no shackles were ever in vogue, no pain existed or unfairness exploited, no hearts were ever broken or corporate robberies committed, nor evil ever imagined much less acted on.

Following Hedges thesis here, one imagines the wailing anti-Trump noise is itself cultist in nature.

Hey, we get it man.  He's an asshole and lawless president who should have been impeached yesterday.

Keep yelling. It's doing a world of good.


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