Journalists say this all the time. Does this guy only follow fox news?

Okay it’s Saturday May 11th, what are the stories from CNN, NBC, ABC, WaPo, and NYT (front pages please) which say that. I just checked and there weren’t any.

There’s trump-in-court, trump-in-irs-trouble, other things like “some say he shouldn’t be campaigning in a blue state on his day off from court” or whatever.

It’s not like a breaking news story. It’s got to be folded into the telling of all the other stories about him. He tried - and failed - to stage a goddamned coup for fuck’s sake.

Incompetently planned, ridiculously reasoned, as one would expect, but he did it nonetheless and I want it to say IN EVERY ARTICLE ABOUT HIM that he tried to stage a coup which failed. Interview justice officials as to what - EXACTLY- are they going to do when he does it again. What protections are in place to prevent him from gutting appointees and protections? Where are those news stories?

And why, after 2016 and everything that we’re saying here happened then, would anyone need to explain this?

I guess that you’re right they cant explictly say “Trump is a facist” because they will get sued but they hint at in and imply it in so many articles. Here’s a quick search which shows what I mean about journalists talking about this. You could find 10+ of these types of posts from each of the big news sites.

Opinion: Trump’s praise of dictators tells us all we need to know

‘It’s happening right here’: The authoritarian threat to American democracy

Why does Trump keep talking like a fascist? Because it works

Twelve signs Trump would try to run a fascist dictatorship in a second term

Talk of a Trump Dictatorship Charges the American Political Debate

You could find 10+ of these types of posts from each of the big news sites.

These are good examples, but here’s the problem with them:

Opinion: Trump’s praise of dictators tells us all we need to know

This is an Opinion article, not a news article. In particular, the NYT likes to hide behind these, allowing opinion writers free rein while hedging and minimizing and normalizing the candidate in all the actual News articles.

‘It’s happening right here’: The authoritarian threat to American democracy

Likewise this is an interview with an author, not a news article.

Why does Trump keep talking like a fascist? Because it works

Another ‘editorial’, and Maddow is pretty great but sort of preaching to the choir. Not news reporting as such.

Twelve signs Trump would try to run a fascist dictatorship in a second term

I forget this one

Talk of a Trump Dictatorship Charges the American Political Debate

This is the only actual news article of the bunch, and it is largely based on trumps famous ‘i’d be a dictator on the first day’ quote which was unfuckingbelievably outrageous in its own right. It’s probably worthy of a breakdown but I’d have to get past the paywall first. Also to note it’s on page 23 of the A section, not exactly front page anyway.

I’d be curious to see how libel and slander laws would apply to accuse a former president and presidential candidate of being a fascist

I think fascist is an ambiguous enough term to dodge libel lawsuits. How would you ever prove that someone is a fascist or not a fascist? It’s not like you get a membership card.