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CNN hosts told they're "complicit" in Trump re-election in live interview (www.newsweek.com)

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[-] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just going to ask... Did you only recently start paying attention to the political news? Because since even before January 6th and CNN has certainly covered Trump in detail... His indictment, his convictions, the Jan 6 hearings, etc. Where have you been? Media tends to cover Trump so much in fact that people were yelling at them for the opposite problem: "Don't give him so much attention!!"

It's universally saturated that anyone with a modicum of sense knows Trump is a convicted felon, rapist, and unfit for office. I say again: NO. SHIT. While I completely sympathize with that frustration and that Biden despite his age issues is still clearly preferable, there exists several problems with this rampant whataboutism:

1. The electorate, especially the battleground state undecided voters are simply not that informed and subject to go with whichever media stream of information takes them. Right now they are
1. It just so happens that the right-wing propaganda machine has a stranglehold on this country, almost always controlling the narrative and thus feeding this both sides rhetoric to aforementioned swing-voters.
1. When you can't change the electorate, sometimes you must change yourself and play to the electorate you have. We can call for Hitler to step down all we want, but of course, Hitler won't step down. What we do expect is the person holding the moral high ground to do the right thing, however, to give us a better shot.

This entire debate about whether Biden stays or goes is contingent solely on (a) energizing the Democratic grassroots coalition — who is not very energized right now, compared to say Obama or Sanders, and (b) appealing to the concerns of the battleground swing-voters, for whom Biden's age is a deal-breaker.

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