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Here’s an article I ran across with a title that raises an interesting issue: TV networks air Trump 10 hours a week-in 2014 they refused to air Obama for 10 minutes. It’s subtitled: Different rules for Democrats.

Indeed, there are different rules for Democrats, in large part because the Democrats fail to demand that the rules that apply to Republicans be applied to them. The Republicans have gotten the coverage they want by constantly accusing the media of being biased against them. This, even though an entire network is a Republican propaganda machine. Why aren’t the Democrats demanding that the networks stop covering Trump’s shitshows? It is obvious to everyone that they are full of self serving and self aggrandizing lies spewed by the genius, interspersed with attacks on the press. Those attacks serve their purpose: they keep the press coming back for more, because to do otherwise would somehow prove that they were biased. Since the Democrats demand nothing, giving them nothing shows no bias.

This Democratic failure to work the refs may very well lead us to defeat in 2020, thereby assuring the collapse of the Republic, ands it’s not the only problem with Democratic messaging. 

I read a fairly authoritative blog post recently (can’t remember where, and too lazy to look) to the effect that the Biden people have made a conscious decision to soft pedal any criticism of Trump’s disastrous incompetence with respect to the plague now afflicting us. Why? Because the American people don’t want that right now. Were the situation reversed, the Republicans would be on the attack day and night, and it would work out just fine for them. It doesn’t matter what the American people might say they want, what matters is the stimulus to which they’ll respond, and attacks work quite nicely. The situation reminds me of the geniuses who advised John Kerry not to respond to the Swift Boat attacks. That worked out just great, didn’t it? Biden will get minimal coverage unless he’s out there attacking Trump for incompetence, and the press for enabling him, and he needs back up from a chorus of other Democrats. All of this is self evident, yet it is also self evident that it won’t happen.