The drill has come to be distressingly familiar.
An usually unpleasant (for progressives) event occurs: Donald Trump wins the presidency or bothersome clinical point of views arise during a pandemic or parent protests appear at institution board meetings or states call for photo IDs at the polls or army murmurings arise after an international fiasco. And then– seemingly over night– a counternarrative becomes lefty journalists aggressively guarantee the proper spin.
However that’s only the fifty percent of it.
Rationale for the inhuman event is then spun. The alleged perps are rapidly identified, broken down as well as terminated (where feasible). A new story is then promoted and decorated– done in order to enhance the political goals of the left.
Consider current examples of the above. The Kremlin aided Trump win. Trump is a Russian property. Different COVID treatments are simply right-wing disinformation. Angry moms and dads are a threat to college board participants– as well as “democracy.” “Voter honesty” is code for voter suppression. There are cabals of white supremacists embedded in the armed forces.
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A common bottom line emerges: The resistance methods disinformation; the opposition is DANGEROUS.
The modus operandi is rather efficient (and also an accurately certified media is of huge help) until the vital lite-ness of the story is subjected. (See e.g. the Mueller record, recently launched “Twitter Files” as well as the charge of former FBI agent Charles McGonigal.) Exactly how after that to retrench after inconvenient/inconsistent facts arise?
Well … enter Uncle Sam. Merely equip your favored federal agency to open up an examination, conduct a twelve o’clock at night raid, or go all-in with major social networks systems in order to chill the nuisances.
An unexpectedly woke private sector is happy to help. Remember just how much the voter suppression narrative was aided by Big league Baseball’s removal of the All-Star Video Game from Atlanta, or the acquiescence of professional and university sports organizations to the injection requireds, or the business neighborhood’s virtue-signaling welcome of “ESG” as a sop to the climate group.
Back to the drill. The Biden period’s most popular stories (see over) have actually normally been convincing with most of Americans for the past 2 years. The era’s social information facilities ensure that just one point of view is welcome– and that dissenting perspectives are disregarded, or even worse.
But the midterms brought remarkable …
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