The cynicism of the American political media

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives was targeted for assassination by a MAGA extremist. Period.

Members of the political media who are scratching their heads on national television, wondering if there is a connection between political violence and incitements to political violence, are every bit as delusional as the conspiracy theorists who believe Trump will be reinstated as president the day after tomorrow by JFK Jr. The brokenness of American political journalists — specifically those who are part of a small and powerful New York City/Washington clique — has destabilized American democracy every bit as much as the opioid manufacturers who killed a million people, and the corporate elites who hollowed out the American middle class and destroyed the pursuit of happiness for tens of millions of American citizens.

The political media has stoked conflict and confused the American people with a bewildering ethic that insists that they alone have the power to interpret and analyze events that are clear and obvious to everyone, but them. Much of the American political media is constructed around a performative search for understanding around what clear words spoken with clear intent really mean.

For instance, a news story about antisemitism triggered by antisemitic comments does not require interpretations. The only thing that matters is the malice, not the motivation of the malice. The hatred is not interpretive. It is real. In fact, all of it is real. The violence is real. The threat is real. The thuggery is real. The only question is, why can’t the small and powerful clique of political journalists report what is real and claim the evidence? Why is it that they fail in their job and in their duty while simultaneously getting to lecture the whole of society that any criticism of their misconduct is an assault on the First Amendment? It is ludicrous.