A day earlier, the Biden-Harris campaign published excerpts from a column written by Margaret Sullivan in WatchmanHe criticized the media for its tendency to fall into “performative neutrality,” focusing too much on Biden's showing and poll numbers and not enough on what a second Trump presidency might mean.
Sullivan said journalists should not fear appearing to be “in the tank” for Biden if they focus on Trump’s seditious behavior; The media should not be worried about the horse race as much as it is about stressing that many of Trump's threats are authoritarian.
She is right that the media must constantly remind itself not to use old metaphors when dealing with a new person like Trump, especially since the media is at a point of interest with Trump – as he himself pointed out. Thanks to Trump, journalists can be decked out in gold — with lucrative book deals, TV deals, and speaking gigs. A man who has enriched himself with millions from foreign countries and kings who have sought favors from the United States has the potential to enrich us as well. He's a once-in-a-lifetime story, and he's the quirky star of a reality show even bigger than his last one.
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He posted a video on Truth Social on Friday promoting the idea that God created him as a shepherd and “shepherd of humanity.” (He also chided Melania, showing her stumbling around and acting as if all she had to do was have lunch with friends.) “God said, ‘I need someone who is willing to get up before dawn, fix this country, and work all day,’” echoes one narrator. “Fight the Marxists, eat dinner, then go to the Oval Office and stay until after midnight for a meeting of heads of state,” he adds. Thus a grueling week with Sunday church. “This is how God created Trump.” It had to happen: Trump played the divine victim, to present himself as Christ-like or even hard-working. Both are equally untrue.
In his speech Friday afternoon in Sioux Center, Iowa, Trump resorted to his childish ways, mocking Biden's stuttering.
I'm not sure whether fact bombing would work in a country plagued by alternative facts. According to new Washington PostIn a poll conducted by the University of Maryland, 25 percent of Americans said it was “probably” or “definitely” that the FBI was behind the events of January 6. Among Republicans, he said mail Thirty-four percent said the FBI “organized and encouraged the insurrection,” compared to 30 percent of independents and 13 percent of Democrats.
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If people don't know by now that Trump tried to overthrow the government he was running for on January 6; If they didn't know that the MAGA fanatics who stormed the Capitol, beat up cops, threatened to hurt Pelosi and hang Mike Pence, were criminals, not “patriots” and “hostages,” as Trump hilariously calls them; If they don't know that Trump created a radical Supreme Court that denies women their rights, they don't want to know, or they don't care.
But the media has to bomb. Aside from the dual enablers at Fox News, journalists learned a lot in 2016 and changed practices to improve relations with Trump, check facts about him more closely, engage in defensive reporting, and no longer cover every tweet like a Bible. Threats to democracy are now as devastating as schools and courts; the times The title “Challenges to Democracy” is used.
When Dick Cheney was a deranged Vice President, I was not allowed to call him a liar in my article. but now times Allows columnists to call Trump a liar. We have learned to separate the man from the office. Just because someone is in the hallowed White House does not mean they deserve the respect of the office. Not if he's waging a fake war or if he's flirting with treason and white supremacy.
However, the Biden-Harris campaign's cheering of Sullivan's column gives the impression that it expects the media to support the incumbent. Biden has to make his own case and not rely on the media or Trump's ridiculousness to win the election for him.
People don't want to vote against someone. They want to vote for someone.
The president must continue to be aggressive in convincing people that he is the best alternative. He's 81, not too old for the job; And that he has solutions to stop the chaos on the border and the continuing death in the Gaza Strip. You do your job, Mr. President, and we will do ours.
This article originally appeared on New York times.
