It reminds me of what Len McCluskey said about the Remain Lobby to belittle the opinions of remain supporters. McCluskey "The Remain Lobby made the Brexit debate toxic." yeah sure, we were all d/heads who let ourselves be influenced by political commentators out to wind us up. realty was nothing could be further from than the truth, remain supporters based their opinions on facts and evidence not wind ups by politicians, similar situation argued now, we all let ourselves be wound up by political commentators, evidence and facts never played a part in forming our opinions on Trump, reality is like Brexit the far right Trumpers made the debate on Trumps guilt toxic and like Brexit there was nothing much we could do about it when people hold flawed opinions to dismiss their arguments and evidence.
I see your point there. My point is, with Trump, just report the facts - they are damning enough.
The media learned very quickly that Trump generates clicks, and Trump outrage generates loads of clicks. A perfect example of what I'm thinking of happened just a few weeks ago. I get pretty much all my news from the BBC and NYT at the moment. On both sites I see a headline along the lines of
'Trump warns of bloodshed if he is not elected' - outrageous right, given what happened on Jan 6? Then I watched the 30 second clip and he was talking about how the US auto industry would be obliterated by China, he would save it by imposing 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports, but if he wasn't elected there would be a bloodbath for the American auto industry. That's standard political bluster. But these two media stalwarts reported it in this shocking, attention grabbing way that completely distorted the reality of what was said.
I don't need anyone to over egg the pudding and try to rile me up, just report the facts and soon enough he will say something outrageous, I don't need anything manufactured.
We all mock the right wing for getting up in arms about false controversies but how many of you are getting suckered in yourselves?
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