The New York Times' top editors must imagine that they are being brave with this story -- "Why a Second Trump Presidency May Be More Radical Than His First" -- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/us/politics/trump-2025-overview.html
In fact, the Times is demonstrating standard Big Journalism weakness.
There is no "may" about it. There is only "will" -- he and his sycophants and apparatchiks-in-waiting are gearing up for dictatorship.
They say so. They plainly mean it. And they know the guard rails won't hold if they get power this time.
Dan Gillmor /
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