Our media environment—Facebook, Twitter & cable news—are in a symbiotic financial relationship with Trump, in different ways. Here we are.
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Both are subject to backlash. Backlash against one is self-defeating. Backlash against the other is empowering.
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Naive "neutrality" principles do not defend freedom and human decency. It takes hard work & organizing.
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These arguments would apply equally well coming from Trump to justify restrictions on CNN.
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You don't think Trumpists believe they are organizing for empowerment in support of freedom and human decency?
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No, I don't. I think they believe those things are fantasies we imposed on them and the real world runs by millennia-old rules of brutality.
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Look at who their heroes are and what sort of symbolism they use. They want a world run by might and naively think they'll come out on top.
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