This piece by Yglesias is really, really important. Basically, the Right has hacked into the hacks who curate our news. The Right makes a bad faith argument (Benghazi! Her emails!) and then creates a story by holding hearings or whatever. The media reports on the hearings then drops it. The Right pillories the press for not covering it to the degree that Breitbart and Fox are covering it, and the media - terrified of being called biased - amp up their coverage. This creates the Clinton email "scandal."
Another example of this is "both sides." Chuck Freaking Schumer released some prime "both sides" bullshit yesterday, comparing someone vandalizing Majority Leader McCarthy's house to the bomb sent to George Soros' house. Today, bombs were sent to the Clintons' and Obama's.
Bombs.
But, you know, someone was rude to Mitch McConnell and Sarah Sanders in a restaurant, so... same thing.
Trump is out there calling the Democrats a lawless mob, bent on violence. As with so much in Trumpistan, every allegation is a confession. And if - and who knows - the media gives breathless wall-to-wall coverage of the bomb threats, the Right will push back with some bullshit about the Migrant Caravan or that time someone yelled at a Senator in an elevator, and the narrative will change and "both side" and yadda yadda yadda.
The different information ecosystems in this country are destroying us. One, however, is built on lies.
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