When he first started running, he was just one kook among several. Then, somehow, he managed to get a little bit of a following in an election year when the Republicans were reeling, and they've picked up and run with it in their desperation.
I wish I had a dime, just a thin dime, for every time the name "Trump" gets mentioned in reference to the dirt sucking scum bucket in the media, starting in 2016 until now. He has been given far more time than the sitting President has been given, if he burps or farts, they're on it for a story. One of the worst offenders is Chuck Todd, who I think set some kind of record for attention given to Trump on a Sunday news program, outdoing even Fux news in that regard. And as far as network coverage goes, ABC and NBC are probably even odds with Fox News. Even Lawrence O'Donnell and Rachel Maddow, who I respect deeply, can't seem to resist bringing his scummy ass to the forefront, to knock him around, usually, but still. It's too much.
We lost our free press along time ago. Like a lot of others, I try to get it back, I do what I can, and I'm happy to say that my little blog has a readership that has slowly grown to over 3,000 a month. But that's nothing compared to podcasts and electronic sites that some people completely depend on for their news.
This is who we are. We've been the world's benevolent superpower and champion of democracy since World War 2. That era has now ended. We never thought it would happen, but the fact is that America in the 21st century is just as susceptible to its biases, prejudices, religious cultism and bigotry, and white supremacy, as the Germans were in the 1930's. Here's a quote from Alexisde Tocqueville that should resonate.
Tocqueville warned that modern democracy may be adept at inventing new forms of tyranny because radical equality could lead to the materialism of an expanding bourgeoisie and to the selfishness of individualism. "In such conditions, we might become so enamored with 'a relaxed love of present enjoyments' that we lose interest in the future of our descendants...and meekly allow ourselves to be led in ignorance by a despotic force all the more powerful because it does not resemble one", wrote The New Yorker's James Wood.[36] Tocqueville worried that if despotism were to take root in a modern democracy, it would be a much more dangerous version than the oppression under the Roman emperors or tyrants of the past who could only exert a pernicious influence on a small group of people at a time.[18]
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