It feels like Harris has to run a damn near flawless campaign just to BARELY beat this guy. Yeah you can bring up the current state of the country, but Trump mishandled COVID, there were over 200k deaths, BLM protest and was 2x impeached. And yet, Joe Biden BARELY beat him.

Trump is a convicted felon, liable sexual predator, caused an insurrection on the Capitol Hill, tried to steal the 2020 election (find me 11,000 votes), constantly kisses Russia’s ass, has more pending court cases and gets sentenced next month and overall has been the main driving factor in America’s division.

Yet, this race is STILL either 50/50 or a slight tilt (Harris leads the polling aggregate right now). Harris gets destroyed by the corporate media for almost anything, yet Trump is still lying and saying the most outlandish shit and nobody cares.

Why does it feel standards are much higher for Harris than Trump?

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    20 days ago

    the lesson he learned from Watergate was that Nixon could have gotten away with it if the media was more sympathetic.

    Then we got Reagan, Bush, and Trump, and he proved it.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      50·
      20 days ago

      The media almost singlehandedly bringing Watergate to the average American’s attention was why Murdoch created Fox News. It was created specifically so they could force control of the narrative to their advantage.

      And then we allowed every other media corporation to be bought and do the same once they saw it worked so well.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        20 days ago

        The media almost singlehandedly bringing Watergate to the average American’s attention

        If you really get under the hood of Watergate, it had all the fingerprints of a soft coup. Nixon was a shit and made for an easy fall guy, but also Trumpian in his stubbornness and his refusal to go whole hog on the Cold War. Ford toed the line - installing Bush Sr to clean Kennedy’s liberals out of the CIA, promoting Greenspan and Rumsfield to the Republican inner circle, and tapping the breaks on our openness with China.

        There was no real reason to break into the Watergate given that Nixon was beating McGovern in a landslide. But it did a lot of favors for the movement conservatives like Goldwater and Reagan to get Nixon’s ass out on the curb.

        The WaPo (a hotbed of spooks even back then) played a big roll in that for a reason. Ffs, Woodward was an agency man going back to his time in Naval Intelligence. He broke Watergate less than a year after joining the paper.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        20 days ago

        He avoided impeachment the same way Clarence Thomas survived his confirmation hearing.

        Ted Kennedy and Tip O’Neal decided it wasn’t worth pursuing.