I have this list I compiled after the 2016 election of what moves toward authoritarianism this administration was going to engage in and so far--alas--it is going in many of the directions I feared. The issue is that Trump is not only deranged, it is that he is scared. And a cornered rabid animal is the most dangerous. Trump sees the wri…
I have this list I compiled after the 2016 election of what moves toward authoritarianism this administration was going to engage in and so far--alas--it is going in many of the directions I feared. The issue is that Trump is not only deranged, it is that he is scared. And a cornered rabid animal is the most dangerous. Trump sees the writing on the wall, no matter how much he might ignore it: when he is no longer in office, and if Pence or another Republican isn't there to pardon him, he is seeing decades of litigation and charges in his future. He won't be able to hide behind his cans of beans on the Resolute Desk.
However, teargassing a line of moms in yellow vests is not the media look he was hoping for. The fact that a huge percentage of these demonstrations are white protesters, standing up with Black and PoC companions also is not a visual this administration wants to portray. But all he looks at is Fox and we know they skew their visuals to meet the propaganda they are selling.
So hurrah for Moms! And for Chris Wallace (I never, ever thought I would say that). The more Trump gets "agitated" (which is how the NY Times described the interview), the more unhinged he sounds.
Chris is the son of Mike Wallace, who was pretty hard-hitting. Chris is very much more mellow than his dad, and does insightful interviews. He does do zingers (as you saw), but they are hard to see coming and some people are so dense they don't get them.
I have this list I compiled after the 2016 election of what moves toward authoritarianism this administration was going to engage in and so far--alas--it is going in many of the directions I feared. The issue is that Trump is not only deranged, it is that he is scared. And a cornered rabid animal is the most dangerous. Trump sees the writing on the wall, no matter how much he might ignore it: when he is no longer in office, and if Pence or another Republican isn't there to pardon him, he is seeing decades of litigation and charges in his future. He won't be able to hide behind his cans of beans on the Resolute Desk.
However, teargassing a line of moms in yellow vests is not the media look he was hoping for. The fact that a huge percentage of these demonstrations are white protesters, standing up with Black and PoC companions also is not a visual this administration wants to portray. But all he looks at is Fox and we know they skew their visuals to meet the propaganda they are selling.
So hurrah for Moms! And for Chris Wallace (I never, ever thought I would say that). The more Trump gets "agitated" (which is how the NY Times described the interview), the more unhinged he sounds.
Chris is the son of Mike Wallace, who was pretty hard-hitting. Chris is very much more mellow than his dad, and does insightful interviews. He does do zingers (as you saw), but they are hard to see coming and some people are so dense they don't get them.
Trump told Wallace even Fox was lousy.