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  • MAGA-Phobia: Politico Q&A with Totalitarianism Expert Focuses on Trump

    05/21/2024 4:16:29 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 13 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | May 21, 2024 | DUmmie FUnnies
    "News" outlets are engaged in feverish speculation about just how dystopian Donald Trump's second term might be. Their fervent imaginations overrule the reality of Trump's first term, which never devolved into dictatorship. On Sunday, Politico's Joanna Weiss conducted a Q&A with liberal Samantha Rose Hill, a scholar of totalitarianism and the author Hannah Arendt. The headline was "‘A Truer Reality Beyond Reality’: Hannah Arendt’s Warning About How Totalitarianism Takes Root."Although Stalinism and Nazism are touched upon (barely), the main focus was Orange Man Bad.
  • Actual Politico Headline: 'How Trump Turned Liberal Comedians Conservative'

    06/16/2019 6:06:01 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 18 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | June 16, 2019 | P.J. Gladnick
    Clickbait. That is the only possible explanation for Politico putting this headline on one of their articles on Saturday: "How Trump Turned Liberal Comedians Conservative." When the reader sees that there is almost no way they can resist finding out how liberal comedians became conservative due to Trump which was the premise of the title on the story by Joanna Weiss. Naturally, this thesis comes from a professor, Dannagal Young at the University of Delaware, who claims that liberals, like Jon Stewart in his Comedy Central heyday, are "playful, subversive, at once cynical and weirdly optimistic." Liberals under Trump, by contrast, are...