The mainstream media and prophecy
Duncan Black enters the wayback machine. These were the headlines in November 2024. Trump wasn’t even in office yet.
“Politico:
The Resistance Is Not Coming to Save You. It’s Tuning Out.
The first Trump administration sparked waves of public activism and aggressive media coverage. This time, not so much.
“Axios:
The Resistance goes quiet
“[NYT]:
‘Get Somebody Else to Do It’: Trump Resistance Encounters Fatigue
“WaPo
Why the resistance went quiet after Trump’s victory”
This certainly makes amusing reading after >3.5 million showed up for the 14 June protests, dwarfing the Trump Soviet parade. Looks like media groupthink.
Media groupthink on Trump
“Politico:
The Resistance Is Not Coming to Save You. It’s Tuning Out.
The first Trump administration sparked waves of public activism and aggressive media coverage. This time, not so much.
“Axios:
The Resistance goes quiet
“[NYT]:
‘Get Somebody Else to Do It’: Trump Resistance Encounters Fatigue
“WaPo
Why the resistance went quiet after Trump’s victory”
This certainly makes amusing reading after >3.5 million showed up for the 14 June protests, dwarfing the Trump Soviet parade. Looks like media groupthink.
Media groupthink on Trump
The only good thing about Trump is that his animosity towards anything with which he disagrees inspires such animosity amongst the peanut gallery that it must get up off its derriere and organize political action echoing the animosity of society against this cretin. I would call it Trump’s unredeeming social value. Unfortunately it is never a lasting revision to our social contract, but merely a short-term reflexive reaction. Ultimately we cannot escape from our fantasy of being saved from ourselves by some heroic self-absorbed elitist.
The MSM will carry water for the elite du jour and the peanut gallery simultaneously, whatever sells.