Posted on 06/01/2024 7:18:41 PM PDT by Libloather
The front page of Friday’s New York Times had a huge, all-caps, single-word headline: “GUILTY.” True enough, but the story that followed was so full of hot-air that I feared the paper in my hands would spontaneously combust.
After recounting the verdict of the Manhattan trial, the story suddenly veered into crazy land. It declared that Donald Trump’s “insurgent behavior delights his supporters as he bulldozes the country’s norms,” and went on to claim: “Now, the man who refused to accept his 2020 election loss is already seeking to delegitimize his conviction, attempting to assert the primacy of his raw political power over the nation’s rule of law.”
The sweeping condemnation surely delighted the Trump haters who dominate the paper’s staff and readership, and likely will appear in a future Pulitzer application. Yet the same facts could have been conveyed more clearly and fairly simply by saying that Trump is appealing the verdict, is still running for president and has a very good chance of winning.
But straight-forward facts don’t have a chance in hell when the Gray Lady’s got a narrative to spin and a political agenda to push.
The agenda is to re-elect Joe Biden and that means spinning the narrative that Trump is a wrecking ball who “bull-dozes the country’s norms.”
It’s dressed-up fear mongering.
That’s not to deny that the former president is a tough and mercurial customer who sometimes goes too far, but he’s an amateur when it comes to breaking norms.
Six legal attacks
Democrats are the world champions. Party prosecutors and lawyers have brought six–yes, six!–criminal and civil cases against Trump since he left office.
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The left did not win here.
They lost.
They exposed their intolerable behaviors, and in so doing caused the great unwashed to question their assumptions.
This is the opposite of what groupthink mind guards are chartered to do.
Short term flex of evil muscle. They had to risk it though cause they got nothing else.
I think it’s over and the dems are firmly in control of the future. Everyone will acquiesce, just as the “good Germans” did in the 30s. It will be “go along to get along” to try to keep from getting swept up with those boarding the trains.
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How would he run away from it?
He's very good at making the best of bad situations.
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