This Could Maybe Possibly Suck?

Chaos Trumps Credulous Journalism

Could? Should? Might?

Really? One way the NYT and many other news orgs are failing so badly is refusing to believe what is in front of them. Saying that Trump “could” upend higher ed? He “could” change America? These are weasel words, and plainly blind to the certainty that he is going to do those things conservatives always intended to do. In Donald Trump, they finally found their useful idiot, whose need for chaos and destruction gives them cover.

Big serious journalists are shocked, shocked I say. Because they apparently believed the GOP when it shouted “free speech.” Now they can’t see or admit that they were had. That politicians were lying to our faces.

If you are still pointing out their hypocrisy, you were had. Hypocrisy is a trap—for us. They don’t care about it at all. Shouting “Hypocrites!” means nothing to them. This is Trump’s superpower, Steve Bannon’s trick, MAGA’s whole system, and JD Vance’s career play.

Hypocrisy? Cry all you want, libs. Decry all you want, journalists. They don’t care about the rules. They care about loyalty, punishment, and getting away with it.

All the revolutionaries and dictators I’ve written about have this one thing in common: saying anything is permitted. There are no rules of logic, consistency, or context. Those would get in the way.

MAGA does not care about consistency. It is a trap and the New York Times (and many of us) have fallen into it. Look how the lower left headline (“White House Says”) still takes seriously the promises of the greatest liar in American history.

Wake up, journalists. Conservatives have been demanding the elimination of the Department of Education since the 1960s. The modern GOP was built around the lie of “welfare queens” in the 1970s. It has been trying to privatize Social Security since the 1980s, allying itself with violent militias since the 1990s, and championing one race of Americans since about 2000.

Why are you credulous and surprised by it now?