Did you see the November 7 NYT front page? It’s positively triumphant. (See attachment, below.) The press is now falling all over each other in the race to demonstrate their willing fealty to the crown. When the NY Times, LA Times and WAPO all cower in fear, you can almost hear the foundation of a free press cracking.
“He defeats Harris and caps his resurgence from outcast to felon to President-Elect.”
“A comeback that tells us who we are.”
“A path seemed unimaginable. Now it’s paved.”
Businesses and world leaders are falling all over each other to profess their fealty to the once and future king.
It sounds like a wrestling match – not an election that handed virtually unlimited power to an unbalanced, delusional liar, con man and convicted criminal. You can almost hear the New York Times quaking in their boots in the hopes that Trump will somehow forget about their strong opposition. (He won’t.)
Businesses and world leaders are falling all over each other to profess their fealty to the once and future king. Saturday Night Live got it exactly right:
This is just the beginning. Institutions will abandon standards they previously judged to be inviolate, in fear of drawing attention to themselves, fearful of what a vengeful Trump will be able to do with the unfettered power handed to him by the Supreme Court.
Where it ends is impossible to say. Some of us may laugh now. But we don’t think most Americans will be laughing for long.
