(1/X) Sorry to keep doing these, but I wanted to do one more thing about how poorly media handles the asymmetry between Trump and Democrats. This is torn directly from my real life experiences watching deans empower an abusive narcissistic sociopath...
(2/X) A way to bothsides without technically bothsiding is just to say things like "no wonder Americans are losing faith in politics". It blames no one explicitly, which means that it blames everyone implicitly...
(3/X) You can say things like "a nation divided" or "a symptom of cultural decline", but it means always means the same things: all actors are equally at fault...
(4/X) This probably sounds like a conservative sentiment (though it's something I mostly hear other liberals say these days): people to have to be held to account for that actions. If someone can do shitty stuff and know all they'll get is "a nation divided"...
@DougJBalloon I always have a problem with polls asking if they think the nation is headed in the right direction and then use the answer as a judgement on the current administration. 🤯