“America is entering its most important, pivotal year since 1860, and the U.S. media is doing a terrible job explaining what is actually happening.…
What we call the Republican Party is barely a political party in any sense of the word but a dangerous antisocial movement that has embraced many of the tenets of fascism, from calls for violence to its dehumanizing of ‘others.’”

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https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html#loaded

Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America

Momentous week of GOP debate, Trump's arrest gets "horse race" coverage when the story's not about an election, but authoritarianism.

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the maga GOP is the new Donald Jim Jones coolaid cult ...