My wife and I have a little daily ritual. I read her the on-this-date entries from my diary. While Trump was in office I would normally note his crime of the day, but I usually skip the Trump stuff so far as what I read to my wife. But I read them to myself, and I’m constantly amazed at the criminal activity that occurred every day, most of which the media let pass, and all of which was officially forgotten within at most 48 hours, with less than 24 being the norm. I’ve forgotten most of it too. There’s simply to much to remember. So often I think to myself: you would never have heard the end of this if a Democrat had done it. See, e.g., “but her emails!”.
So I confess that I didn’t recall the fact that Trump had called Democrats fascists, likely because the media didn’t bother to report it, though the old clip is making the rounds on Twitter, from what I gather. This is par for the course for the American media. At the very least they should have noted that he had done this when reporting on Biden’s speech. I don’t have to consult a search engine to feel comfortable with the assertion that when Trump made his speech no one in the press asked Trump or his representatives whether he was doing harm to the republic by branding Democrats with that term, just as none of those who have questioned Biden’s use of the term “semi-fascism”, have called out Republicans for routinely calling Democrats socialists, communists, etc.
There has been only a minimal amount of discussion, in the mainstream, about whether Biden was correct in asserting that MAGA Republicans are “semi-fascists”, but for the most part they’ve run with the Republican’s hypocritical argument that it is simply unseemly to use such terms about your political opponents, unless, of course, you’re a Republican and even more so if you’re Donald Trump, in which case it’s only to be expected and simply not worth mentioning. So we travel the Road to Fascism with a compliant media refusing to read the street signs.
Update: Also how long before they forget this, even if they do bother to report it.
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