The argument that news networks put their fingers on the scale for Trump comes down to their motivations to have "content" that improves ratings. Trump is good for ratings! Fuck democracy.
My sojourn on foreign shores was certainly a deluge of "content." There was the Trump-Musk uncivil war; the LA protests; the police assault on Senator Padilla; the Israeli-Iranian war; Trump's laughable parade and the No Kings Protests, the assassination of Minnesota legislators. I'm sure I'm forgetting some things.
I was gone for twelve days.
Having the ability to step back and not comment immediately has led me to see Trump's deluge of horseshit as being a demonstration of his fundamental weakness. The capper is of course the massive protests that drowned out his feeble parade.
Trump requires a steady barrage of outrage, but his manifest incompetence and rampant lying actually blunt his effectiveness at creating a true dictatorship. He's manifestly unpopular and his low-information voters aren't likely to show up to vote or they will swing against him. He's hemorrhaging support from Hispanics, independents and the young men who helped him win in November. He might not care, but at some point Republicans will have to.
This is all very chaotic and unpleasant, but I think the lesson of the last two weeks has been about Trump's inherent weakness.
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