If it wasn’t for Fox News and its more recent imitators, the right would not have the power it has now. The left has nothing even close. MSNBC actually tries to tell the truth, even when it’s inconvenient for their liberal views. It seems that we have a dangerous, very powerful menace afoot in American political life. Some guy named Hucker Carlan or something (I never read anything with his name in it) seems to have more power than anybody else in the country. It almost seems as though show-biz and politics have finally merged. Calan for President wouldn’t be a stretch. After all, if the King of Mar-a-Loco finds himself incarcerated or dead in three years, the nomination is his if he wants it.
This is no way to run a country. And we are going to be in big trouble sooner rather than later. The convergence of Trump’s Presidency, the pandemic, the climate crisis, the proliferation of conspiracy theories as a result of these circumstances is a perfect storm. We are in an existential fight for democracy, and we had damn well better start acting like it.