Tom Nichols gets it 90% right in his latest npub1fjpfncxkrs26dl2zuu7yuwr78cdpkagawm92c7wq55p6zng62epsgf3dyz (npub1fjp…3dyz) post: If democracy dies in the next several years, he says, blame Trump, his democracy-loathing cabal, the Republicans in general, and feckless voters who miss what's at stake.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/11/trump-plot-military-election/675922/?utm_source=press.coop
But while he mentions the press, he doesn't assign nearly enough responsibility to its cowardice and willful refusal to a) recognize what's at stake and b) actively fight to save our system.
(Wishing Nichols would leave deadbird site...)
Dan Gillmor /
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