There's a thing going on that I don't understand. The existence of Trump, let alone his history and role in current events, is totally erased. All of the pearl-clutching about the Hunter pardon is completely 1-sided. The Republican party simply does not exist in this "analysis". It strikes me as a new level of propaganda from mainstream media we havent seen before.
There's a thing going on that I don't understand. The existence of Trump, let alone his history and role in current events, is totally erased. All of the pearl-clutching about the Hunter pardon is completely 1-sided. The Republican party simply does not exist in this "analysis". It strikes me as a new level of propaganda from mainstream media we havent seen before.
It's like they are treated like inanimate objects, as if they are essentially landmines. Dangerous, yes, but not really capable of intention or agency, and therefore ultimately blameless.
All this talk of "uncouthness" seems to elide that these standards only exist for Democrats and their voters. Donald has tried his hardest to be as uncouth as possible.
I take the uncouth frame as a focus on the motivation of the media in how they judge politicians who violate their conventions. Trump is the black hole in the center of this framing, but he has been his entire political career. He simply is not considered to be a politician and is exempt from this judgement. I think it has to do with media's refusal to consider what Trump is and what his popularity says about this country and the assumptions it rests on. They pretend he is a politician in covering him but refuse to judge him the way they judge the Democratic party. This dichotomy is strained already, and will only get worse as his administration gets to work. Things are going to get very, very weird.
There's a thing going on that I don't understand. The existence of Trump, let alone his history and role in current events, is totally erased. All of the pearl-clutching about the Hunter pardon is completely 1-sided. The Republican party simply does not exist in this "analysis". It strikes me as a new level of propaganda from mainstream media we havent seen before.
It's like they are treated like inanimate objects, as if they are essentially landmines. Dangerous, yes, but not really capable of intention or agency, and therefore ultimately blameless.
All this talk of "uncouthness" seems to elide that these standards only exist for Democrats and their voters. Donald has tried his hardest to be as uncouth as possible.
I take the uncouth frame as a focus on the motivation of the media in how they judge politicians who violate their conventions. Trump is the black hole in the center of this framing, but he has been his entire political career. He simply is not considered to be a politician and is exempt from this judgement. I think it has to do with media's refusal to consider what Trump is and what his popularity says about this country and the assumptions it rests on. They pretend he is a politician in covering him but refuse to judge him the way they judge the Democratic party. This dichotomy is strained already, and will only get worse as his administration gets to work. Things are going to get very, very weird.