I have to rant, because Washington Post “journalist” Seung Min Kim — like many in the elitist mainstream media bubble (“what a century this week has been” ha ha??) — both needs to get a clue/grip & should be ashamed of herself. Sadly I don’t have faith either will happen soon, as the DC press corps has revealed themselves to be absolutely dire these days, evidently learning zero lessons the past 5 years about what’s at stake and how horrified our Founding Fathers would be at our current state of affairs.
I don’t mean to pick on this individual person, but what a failure. Get a load of this tweet, an unreal epitome of the catastrophic, out-of-touch “bothersiderism” that has lurched our democracy toward fascism and totalitarianism (and, somehow, amazingly, continues):
Seriously, on May 14, 2021 — after Jan. 6 plus, just this week, Rep. Liz EFFING Cheney being booted from the cult of Donald Trump, excuse me House QOP “leadership” — this wannabe journalist has the gall to editorialize that Rep. Swalwell’s response to literal fascism is unnecessarily profane?? How inane and out of touch can the DC press corps possibly be??
How about, SOME OF US DON’T WANT TO DESCEND INTO FASCISM??? OMFG JFC how hard is that concept! This is just the latest example of everything that is dangerously wrong with mainstream media coverage, STILL. I was on my college newspaper, and every member of our staff did a better job, even at college age, than almost any member of the DC press corps, who seem to just get high off their own self-importance.
On that note, shoutout to 2 of the best people to follow covering this imperative, under-discussed topic — Egberto Willies and Eric Boehlert . If the media can’t clean up it’s act, after all this time, we continue to be perilously close to following the fates of Hungary, Turkey, Poland and countless other democratic backslides.