We Need To Speak Honestly About The GOP's Evolution Into A Conspiracy Cult

[bendog]

One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.

We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP's Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly

It's not biased or unprofessional to accurately describe what is happening.

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A conversation that is owed to those that fought to preserve the norm.

Well, I think we can accuse the dem party of using the Bernie wing and even black wing for support but with no real intention of acting on some of their "more extreme" issues, e.g. socialism and reparations.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

We Need To Speak Honestly About The GOP's Evolution Into A Conspiracy Cult

That's some liberal projection right there. After getting bitch slapped in the 2016 election its been one liberal conspiracy after another. This is where we remind you people that you vowed to impeach Trump before the guy was even sworn into office now THAT'S a conspiracy cult. Trump is a Russian puppet ring a bell.

Democrats vowed, and they were ultimately successful with impeachment. This is not a conspiracy, or open to any further interpretation. It is a fact.

 

[dudmuck]

We Need To Speak Honestly About The GOP's Evolution Into A Conspiracy Cult

That's some liberal projection right there. After getting bitch slapped in the 2016 election its been one liberal conspiracy after another. This is where we remind you people that you vowed to impeach Trump before the guy was even sworn into office now THAT'S a conspiracy cult. Trump is a Russian puppet ring a bell.

Pelosi wasnt on board with impeaching Trump, even after Mueller investigation finished.
It wasnt until Trump strong-armed ukraine with military aid that democrats went ahead with impeachment.
And Trump proved he was doing Russia's bidding at G7.

 

[healthmyths]

One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.

We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP's Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly

It's not biased or unprofessional to accurately describe what is happening.

washingtonmonthly.com

A conversation that is owed to those that fought to preserve the norm.

It was certainly an issue during the later Reagan years. But it didn't really ramp up until Newt and his Republican Revolution rolled into town. For the Republican Party, it's been a slow, steady descent ever since. The moderates and real conservatives have been driven out of the party. They've given a home to every right wing kook in the country and tried to make enemies out of the media and anyone who questions their motives. The whole conspiracy theory immersion has been happening since Obama was elected. Throw any lie against the wall and see if it sticks. I'm hoping we can get back to something approaching a normal news cycle next January.

In 2016, a study by the Center for Public Integrity showed that 96% of campaign donations by journalists went to Donald Trump,
compared to just 3.5% which went to Hillary Clinton.
While coverage of President Obama included 59% favorable content among the 10 news outlets compared to 41% negative,
coverage of President Trump has included a whopping 20% of reporting that is negative in tone, with just 80% that is positive.

Journalists shower Hillary Clinton with campaign cash

New Yorker television critic Emily Nussbaum, a newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner, spent the Republican National Convention pen-pricking presidential nominee Donald Trump as a misogynist shyster running an “ugly and xenophobic campaign.” What Nussbaum didn’t disclose in her dispatches: she...

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Your source says majority of journalists donated to Hillary Clinton maybe I missed something somewhere

I was taking the study as the MSM does, out of context...i.e. swapped Trump as recipient of 96% not Hillary to see what the reactions would be
of ignorant people...i.e. TDS people. That study totally explains the MSM gross malfeasance in presenting the news. Since they didn't get the voters,
electorally, they tried all sorts of misleading news. Also, along the lines of electoral votes... Trump had before running for president nearly 2 billion
viewers of the TV series. I find it totally ludicrous that the TDS/MSM/Democrats completely ignored Trump's advertising spending during the campaign.
He wasted NO money on NY/Ca and given blue states. But spent wisely on electoral states. So if the ignoramuses that complain "he didn't win popular vote"... decide in 30+ years to constitutionally change the electoral process... how stupid!