4/ An unprecedented bungling of public handling of the (legitimate) Clinton email investigation by Director Comey.
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while many of these stories got eventually covered, the email issue consumed so much oxygen
This was made much worse by cable news, which had incentive to build Trump up for drama/ratings, selling it as reality TV and not serious
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and outlets giving oxygen to fringe pundits with unsupported and irresponsible theories, all in name of even-handedness
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And rise of incendiary and false news sites such as Breitbart, which mangle the truth and more importantly provide an alternative reality
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It is a reality that allows Trump's base of non-college educated whites to really believe nonsense about it all being rigged against Trump
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and the nonsense by Trump, amplified by faux media, further amps up the crowds against the press and democratic institutions
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Language about taking the country "back" further fuels a backward-looking move to what for many Americans were the bad-old days.
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6/ So there's lots of anxiety out there. for good reason. And I hope that the country can begin to heal Nov. 9. But I'm anxious too <end>
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