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When was this? I follow news fairly closely, and never heard anything like this beyond an occasional op-ed column or a direct quote. A madman in the White House needs to be newsworthy beyond the opinions page.
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I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration. I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
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We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated. The president and his enablers have replaced conservatism with an empty faith led by a bogus prophet.
Republicans, it’s time to choose between autocracy and a republic
Like, always and forever, these criticism are from some Bush Era flaks and other "moderate" reactionaries. But they were littered all through the back end of the Trump 1 regime and early 2024 election cycle.
At the very least, the dementia allegations have been front-page news since his first election campaign back in 2016.
After that, I'm not sure what you're asking for. Trump isn't a foreign leader, so you're not going to see the kind of truly hysterical coverage we reserve for enemy nations. One of the perks of running the secret services is that you can just fire all the guys who publish that shit. Not a coincidence that Trump took a hatch to the State Department in his first term nor that his first move in term two was to ax Voice of America and the USAID program. When these calls are coming from inside the house, just cut the phone lines. Problem solved.
Trump building a much closer relationship with Silicon Valley also curbed the negative coverage, given that virtually every major news organization is now owned or administered by a tech company. So you're not seeing "madman" coverage anymore, thanks to Trump's move to cozy up with the people who run the news business. But it wasn't abnormal to read about it five years ago.
Well, wouldn't say I'm "asking," because you & I already know the answer is no. Sanewashing is all we'll get, with Trump's meandering statements and destructive policies presented blandly. Months and months of his tariff pronouncements, with media rarely mentioning that they're illegal; his routine insults and firings for blacks and women, without mentioning in the headline or paragraph one that the insults and firings are wildly black- and woman-centered; all his daily drivel on Truth Social, without saying in plain English that it's crazy.
Your listed links are all op-eds or reports quoting someone, but America needs to hear Trump is a madman as news coverage, not a column or commentary. It's not an opinion; Trump is a madman, ipso facto pepto bismo. Facts ought to be reported factually.
I mean, they're not illegal in any material sense. Even when the SCOTUS finally got off it's ass to give a ruling (5-4) they didn't actually establish a way for anyone to get their money back
That's all modern journalism is anymore.
Tariffs are a Congressional function. They've handed limited tariff authority to the White House, pre-Trump, but Trump's tariffs are beyond those bounds, and were illegal via common sense long before the Supremes heard the case.
Like so much else, they're functions that the legislature has empowered the executive to administer.
Congress hates doing anything. And so we've spent decades vesting more and more power into the President, creating the modern day unitary executive.
And I've always wondered ... why?
The Congressional habit of yielding power seems so at odds with... everything I've ever seen and (pretend to) understand about human nature.
Because Congress operates slowly and as a majority lead unit, any individual representative rarely gets everything they want. But a friendly relationship with an autocrat can deliver so much more.
Especially when you pull a Rubio or Cheney and jump from the legislature to the executive.