The MAGA echo chamber didn’t come out of nowhere—it evolved. I first saw it with Rush Limbaugh: weak arguments, massive audience. The right perfected a closed loop where intellectually honest conservative voices don’t stand a chance, and liberal media isn’t even allowed a hearing. The internet...
Trump naming a new class of battleships after himself is pretty much on brand. It’s extremely unlikely anything like this ever gets built, and even if the “Golden Fleet” were taken seriously, shipbuilding doesn’t move on press-conference timelines. Design, funding, Congress, and shipyard...
I absolutely believe that things will change. They always do. They will provide whatever gets viewers. So they will change as viewers change. The question is whether viewers will begin to demand better? That I don’t have much optimism.
MS Now does drill the same story home each hour on the hour. There’s very little variation from host to host. Back in the day with Olberman, Shultz they had more independence.
The reality, with that horrible 18 minutes the other night as the prime example, is that Fox and friends will try to defend the indefensible and the liberal media will zero in on every mistake (lie) Trump tells. Each source has a loyal audience that thrives and depends on them feeding us the...
What has always confused the average American is that the economy doesn’t turn on a dime or that the mechanism the president has to make a difference is limited in the short run. I question the impact of chasing off the immigrants who work our farms and build our houses is going to have on the...