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The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism (newrepublic.com)

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We are now one year into Donald Trump’s second term, and something strange is happening in political media. A lot of people who spent years insisting that the so-called “alarmists” were being hysterical have started, tentatively, to admit that maybe they got it wrong.

Last April, David Brooks published a long essay in The Atlantic titled “I Should Have Seen This Coming,” in which he acknowledged that he’d underestimated how much conservatism had become pure anti-liberal reaction. Jon Stewart, who spent the early weeks of the second Trump administration chiding liberals for being too quick to use the word “fascism,” eventually conceded on air: “I did not think we would get this authoritarian this fast. I really didn’t. I’m sorry. Who could’ve known? Maybe if somebody out there had yelled at me on Bluesky about this, I would have known. But no one did. Except every day. In all caps.”

Political scientist Corey Robin, who had spent years dismissing those who called MAGA fascist, admitted on an October podcast: “I was skeptical coming into this second administration that they would be able to wield the kind of power that people feared they would wield. I have since turned out to be wrong.”

Closing the barn door once the four horsemen have already bolted.

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I reached out to Reuters’ media relations department to ask Buzbee about this. I wanted to understand the disconnect between knowing about Project 2025 and not understanding the organized agenda. I asked what it would have taken for major outlets to treat the document as a roadmap rather than speculation. I asked how the press should handle situations where Trump’s denial of involvement with something is treated as more credible than the documented evidence of his involvement.

I haven’t heard back as of publication, but I’ll update this piece if I do.

At the heart of both fascism and neoliberalism is the spiritual need to forget what causes cataclysm so it can repeat, allowing us all to just be victims of an inevitable, unforseeable violence rather than active participants in it.