Brian Klaas: “What is going on? How is it possible that the leading candidate to become president of the United States can float the prospect of executing a general and the media response is… crickets?”
“How is it possible that it’s not front page news when a man who soon may return to power calls for law enforcement to kill people for minor crimes? And why do so few people question Trump’s mental acuity rather than Biden’s, when Trump proposes delusional, unhinged plans for forest management and warns his supporters that Biden is going to lead us into World War II (which would require a time machine), or wrongly claims that he defeated Barack Obama in 2016.”
“On the political left, there has long been a steady drumbeat of admonishment on social media for those who highlight Trump’s awful rhetoric. Whenever I tweet about Trump’s dangerous language, there’s always the predictable refrain from someone who replies: ‘Don’t amplify him! You’re just spreading his message.’”
“The press, to an astonishing extent, has followed that admonishment.”
