The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the crisis Democrats were waiting for, and they are not going to waste it. Those few hours of lawless mayhem became unimpeachable proof that the muddy smears they’d thrown against Donald Trump supporters were all true.
Through the funhouse mirror of hyper-partisanship, that angry mob of thousands became all 74 million Americans who voted for Trump in November. The crowd’s explicit anger over the 2020 election was cast as an implicit push for white supremacy.
Never mind that almost all prominent Republicans and conservatives recoiled from the violence and immediately condemned it, or that one of the main organizers of the rally was a black Arab American. There’s enough scattershot evidence for Democrats and their allies to add “demonstrated violence” to their list of conservative crimes and justify a radical program of repression. While Joe Biden issues calls for unity, many of his allies are waging a scorched earth campaign to sil
A Sneak Peek Into America’s Political Landscape In 2021
A Sneak Peek Into America’s Political Landscape In 2021
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If you think 2020 was an unpredictable year, you probably weren’t paying enough attention. For more than a decade, epidemiologists have warned the authorities about a once-in-a-hundred-years pandemic ravaging the planet. They also said that even the most advanced nations would be ill-prepared for the fallout.
Now that 2020 is over, and we have stepped into a new year with new hopes, we know for sure that 2021 won’t be devoid of challenges both familiar and unforeseen. However, we will also see rays of rejuvenation as the world recovers from the lockdown.
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Just last week, Trump could set the news agenda across the Western world with a tweet, shaping the reporting equally for both right-wing and more fact-based journalism.
Now, he’s on the fringes, the media fragmentation he concealed is falling out into the open as the media shifts in response to the Joe Biden transition.
In the large right-wing Anglo-sphere media particularly dominant in Australia due to News Corp fact-based journalism is proving too hard a sell. Faced with a flight of its loyal viewers to more extreme outlets like NewsMax and the One America News Network, Fox News has slipped from the leading cable news supplier, falling behind the centrist CNN and the more progressive MSNBC.
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The military band at the US Capitol assembles for the inauguration ceremony of President Biden.
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America s division was in sharp relief on cable TV on Wednesday during the inauguration of US President Joe Biden and his speech on the steps of the Capitol.What CNN Political Correspondent Abby Phillip described as an invitation to decency, to civility from the Democrat, right-wing media favorable to Republican Donald Trump during his term dismissed as hypocritical - or ignored altogether.
Conservative news channel Newsmax host Tom Basile described Biden s address, in which he urged the country to seek unity and end an uncivil war, - as very dark, not unifying, and quite divisive. Another conservative outlet, One America News Network (OAN), skipped covering the inauguration.