True bias of USA press is neither left not right but elite centrist. Things loved by elite centrists (forever wars, deficit reduction, anti-inflation policies, "bipartisan compromise") are treated as if they are naturally right and good, rather than debatable policy choices.
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A sign that his popularity is about to spike tho…
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Probably not - his base watches these cable channels that are now bashing him 24/7. Consent machine go brrr
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Facts. This is probably going to piss off a lot of centrists, this proving you were right.
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and a bias to the cultural left, which is different than this. almost no journalists are religious or socially conservative, but that describes a large minority of the country
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Right, it's a very specific set of beliefs -- hawkish on foreign policy, corporatist on economics, libertarian on social policy -- that has no real political puchase except among elite.
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And of course the reason that Afghanistan is "centrist" is because all these politically connected people are pocketing the trillions of dollars being spent in the country.
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Enormous loss of civilian life was a complete writeoff as long as it was in service to US military presence
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Worth pointing out that none of those things elite centrists fetishized are actual policy conclusions. They’re all process oriented.
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Astute
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Or maybe trying to reconcile any number of warring factions was never going to be possible, which was something every president for the last 20 years knew to be true but none ever faced up to.
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