It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like a Republican Government Shutdown – The New Republic

The solution? Reverse course on a party maxim to oust Trump from the public consciousness, according to Democratic leadership, who no longer feel that ignoring the real estate mogul is an effective tactic and instead are quietly hoping for live broadcasting of his notorious campaign rallies, reported The New York Times.

Not having the day-to-day chaos of Donald Trump in peoples faces certainly has an impact on how people are measuring the urgency of the danger of another Trump administration, Adrianne Shropshire, the executive director of BlackPAC, an African American political organizing group, told the Times. It is important to remind people of what a total and absolute disaster Trump was.

Its a surprising about-face. From Trumps descent down the escalator in June 2015 until January 6, 2021, the consensus among mainstream Democrats was that the media was far too beholden to Donald Trump and that, in the cynical pursuit of eyeballs and profits, they essentially allowed him to act as their assignment editor. The notion that the press was complicit in Trumps rise was widely held during this period, as was the idea that the nation would wake up if they covered him as a dictator in training. The presss coverage of Trump has become more disciplined and aggressivewhen it happensin the aftermath of January 6. But it hasnt dimmed Trumps popularity. Now the hope is that more coverage of Trumps derangement will damage his candidacy.

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