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"In a statement, the L.A. Times Guild said it is especially concerned 'that he is now unfairly assigning blame to Editorial Board members for his decision not to endorse.'"
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing
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"Mariel Garza, the Los Angeles Times' editorials editor, resigned yesterday after Patrick Soon-Shiong, the newspaper's billionaire owner, blocked the outlet’s decision to endorse Harris. This has further strained Soon-Shiong's already tense relationship with Times staff during a year marked by newsroom cuts and turmoil."
~ Brian Stelter
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong
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"No one else in modern politics has been given more leeway for aberrant behavior than Trump."
~ Renée Graham
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing
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Opinion | When will media stop coddling Trump?
Call it normalizing or "sanewashing," but covering the former president as if he’s an ordinary nominee is journalistic malpractice.The Boston Globe
Jeff Sharlet looks at the term "sanewashing," which Parker Molloy has popularized to characterize how the corporate media treat Trump, and says,
"I think Parker would agree with this; It’s fascist-washing."
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler #media #sanewashing
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Jeff Sharlet on ‘Sanewashing’ and Fascism
Nonfiction writer Jeff Sharlet joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss how mainstream media outlets sanitize Donald Trump’s rhetoric in their reporting rather than straigh…Literary Hub
"A fat, lazy, incurious fascist is still a fascist."
~ Daniel Drezner
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"Trump’s admiration for Adolf Hitler may be the clearest expression of how profoundly unsuited he is to ever come near our White House again."
~ Steven Beschloss
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Admiring Hitler Is Disqualifying. Period.
Sixteen million Americans fought against fascism and the Nazi regime to secure freedom and democracy. We have a duty to defeat this candidate for president who rejects our basic values.Steven Beschloss (America, America)
"It needs to be emphasized at every opportunity that the Republican currently running to be president of the United States is on the side of the Nazis whom we sacrificed so much blood and treasure to defeat in World War II. It’s devastating that this tragic truth is not enough to render Donald unacceptable to every single American—or, indeed, no elected Republcans."
~ Mary Trump
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"Trump's embrace & praise of Hitler should have been the breaking point for the GOP, but instead they've decided to go all in."
~ Wajahat Ali
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Never Go Full Hitler
Trump's embrace & praise of Hitler should have been the breaking point for the GOP, but instead they've decided to go all in. We've officially reached the bottom, and none of it should be normalized.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"I hope that many of the people now supporting Trump will have an attack of conscience on their way to their polling station. But as Trump’s running mate, J. D. Vance, once wrote for The Atlantic, Trump is 'cultural heroin,' and the hard choice of civic virtue will never match the rush of racism, hatred, and revenge that Trump offers in its place."
~ Tom Nichols
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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Trump’s Depravity Will Not Cost Him This Election
Many Americans know exactly who Trump is, and they like it.Tom Nichols (The Atlantic)
"This is the time for political courage.
Instead, America’s highest-profile business leaders — Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase; Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft; and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway — are displaying political cowardice."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #EconomicElites #CorporateLeaders #JamieDimon #WarrenBuffett #BillGates #Hitler
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Political cowardice in the C-suites
Jamie Dimon, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett have spoken out on everything else but are afraid to come out against Trump. They are relinquishing whatever claims they had to leadership in America.Robert Reich
"On Wednesday, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu dismissed Trump's praise for Hitler’s generals as a fact that is 'baked in' to the election results. ...
If Donald Trump wins, it will be in large part because wealthy business leaders (like Soon-Shiong) and spineless politicians like Chris Sununu put their political and monetary fortunes ahead of the democracy that allowed them to succeed. Shame, shame, shame!"
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Republicans #fascism
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Count New Hampshire governor Sununu among the Americans who want to shrug at Trump's infatuation with Hitler: asked about this yesterday on CNN, Sununu shrugged and said extremism is just "baked into" Trump.
But so what?
Heather Cox Richardson highlights this statement by Sununu:
“If we can get a Republican mindset out of Washington, we need that culture change.”
Trump loves Hitler? Trump's a fascist? So what?
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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As Dan Rather notes, "a who’s who of Republican officials from the Trump administration and many of the Pentagon’s top brass" have now warned us that the man is "unfit to serve."
Rather asks,
"if Trump should win, what would that say about our country?"
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The warning bell keeps clanging. Many of us are bored at hearing the repeated clangs.
This underscores a central revelation of this election: given the chance to choose fascism, eyes wide open, a significant proportion of Americans say, "Bring it on."
So he talks about Hitler with admiration? So what? What's a little infatuation with Hitler, after all?
We Americans are having to face some ugly truth about ourselves as this election nears.
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #Hitler
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As Moira Donegal reminds us, Trump's plan to round up immigrants, put them into camps, and deport them is a "moral abomination," no matter how many white Christians lust for it and how the corporate media whitewash it.
"What is being proposed is a vast cruelty, a human tragedy, and a costly national investment in racism."
#Republicans #Trump #JDVance #immigrants #violence #MassDeportations #churches #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #MainlineProtestants
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Trump’s proposal for mass deportation of immigrants is a moral abomination
This would be a horrific program of ethnic cleansing – yet most of the media reaction has focused on the economic costsMoira Donegan (The Guardian)
Russell Contreras zeroes in on findings of the PRRI "Challenges to Democracy" study. Who, precisely wants to round up immigrants and put them into camps?
79% of Republicans vs. 22% of Democrats
75% of white evangelicals
61% of white Catholics
58% of white mainline Protestants
#Republicans #Trump #JDVance #immigrants #violence #MassDeportations #churches #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #MainlineProtestants
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