Legacy media has taken a solid political position, and it isn’t neutrality.
Nor is it vaguely right-wing.
Not wholly unrelated, CNN’s Anderson Cooper recently applied a label to Trump supporters that left little to the imagination
According to the newsman, those who endorse The Donald are, starkly, members of “a nihilistic death cult.”
Nihilism, per Merriam-Webster:
- a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless
- a doctrine that denies any objective ground of truth and especially of moral truths
As you well know, there was tumult in Washington Wednesday.
A group stormed the Capitol as Congress was scheduled to certify votes from the Electoral College.
Amid the chaos, lawmakers were evacuated, to later re-convene.
What does Anderson surmise from it all? That no sane person would endorse the Republican president.
Cooper’s afternoon takeaway, as told to Republican Sen. Rick Santorum (see the video here):
“Let me ask you: The Republicans just lost the Senate and, you know, you had Donald Trump Jr. earlier this morning saying, you know, this is Donald Trump’s Republican Party, which we have said over and over and over again — which clearly it is now. Why would any Republican continue to follow this man?”
Of course, CNN’s been offering a form of that question for half a decade.
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