Sums it up pretty well, and if the major news networks aren't as blatant about it as FOX, they're not exactly pushing back the way they should and could. But more on that below.
Digby’s Hullabaloo has some recent posts that tie the news together today. For those who may have missed them:
He’s Fine: Digby has the texts of Trump’s call for his followers to protest, claiming he’ll be arrested next Tuesday. It’s over the top derangement. Updated with messages from Kevin McCarthy and his handler Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Bracing For Impact: Tom Sullivan lays out reports of how law enforcement is prepping for violence from Trump supporters if and when an indictment is announced. He also has an admonition from Marcy Wheeler, tweeting to the press to stop aiding and abetting Trump’s manipulation of the media.
Here's a headline that is accurate:
The former President is using reports of an imminent arrest to incite violence on social media.
You don't have to name him, accept his label of violence as protest, or disseminate his all-caps language. Don't reward him for this incitement.
As journalists, you are NOT required to treat "Take our nation back" as anything but incitement -- not least, because it was a key cry used the last time the former President attempted a coup.
You are also NOT required to ignore the coded anti-semitism of the reference to Soros.
The “Moderate”: Digby posts some tweets from Nikki Haley, would-be presidential candidate and supposed Republican moderate. She’s pushing balls-to-the-wall conspiracy theories. As Digby notes:
Don’t be surprised to see teachers threatened with violence. These candiates are whipping the MAGA freaks into a frenzy. And they are lying. Of course.
Warming Up To The Divorce: Digby points to the latest gathering of the Federalist Society, wherein their agenda in fighting liberal ideas on the bench has progressed to the point where they are now deciding whether or not to give up on democracy and just go for everything they can get, including breaking up the country.
...Despite accusations from liberals that the society is merely the eggheaded puppet of the Republican Party, many of the society’s members genuinely view themselves as independent-minded intellectuals, committed to the principles of individual freedom, judicial restraint and the rule of law. For the past two decades, the society’s members have pointed to those principles to justify the conservative movement’s efforts to weaken democratic norms and institutions, without having to go so far as to explicitly argue that a minority of Americans should be allowed to impose their will on the whole country.
But now, as the American right lurches toward a more explicitly anti-democratic position, the society’s members are face to face with a troubling possibility: that most conservatives couldn’t care less about their high-minded principles, and, even worse, that many of their allies view their attachment to those principles as a quaint — and slightly embarrassing — relic of the bygone era when conservatives still had to be coy about what they actually believed. And whether or not those criticisms are true, there was a definite sense of cognitive dissonance at the conference, where many of the panelists appeared willing to endorse the logic of anti-democratic arguments but shied away from those arguments’ more radical conclusions.
Surprised? No, I didn’t think so…
By the way, they were always full of shit.
St. Ronnie was a slimball?: [Slimeball?] Digby has pretty much the entire NY Times story of the Ben Barnes revelations that John Connally traveled the Middle East in the run-up to Jimmy Carter’s bid for reelection on a mission of sabotage. According to Barnes, Connally told regional Arab leaders to pass the word to Iran that they should not release the U.S. Embassy hostages, that a President Reagan would give them a better deal than Carter. Barnes said Connally was angling for a high level position in the Reagan administration to-be, and was in contact with Reagan’s campaign.
Digby:
...Everyone knew the fix was in when they released the hostages the minute Reagan was sworn in. This just adds to the details of how they did it. Nixon did a similar sabotage in 68. This is how they roll.
It’s also why we should not be surprised that they eventually ended up with a blatant criminal conman like Donald Trump as their leader. It’s who they are.
I guess it’s nice to let Carter know this on his deathbed. It’s better than nothing. But it would have been even nice if he’d known about for the last 40 years of his life.
There’s an observation about Trump and the GOP that becomes more telling every day: Trump didn’t change the Republican Party — he revealed it. To paraphrase the prediction in Harry Potter, it’s increasingly looking like America is in the same relationship with the Republican Party as Harry and Voldemort: “neither can live while the other survives.”
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No, not if you think America is a country for white Christian males and a place where billionaires have all the freedom they want.
In their hearts, they know they're right. So screw you.
Yes, but it would be uncivil to say so.
Gee I don't know - could we get some more evidence?
I really don't like going there - but they insist on dragging us towards the abyss.
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