I never listened to Rush or much establishment conservative media. The closest would be when I was listening to Daily Wire podcasts on my commute, then stopped when they became predictable and repetitive. You would basically get the same news from Knowles, Shapiro, and Walsh, just presented differently, and they didn’t really do much journalism. It was more their take on the news every day, which I don’t need someone to do for me.
I actually consume more leftwing media than right these days, including HCR’s admirable attempts to make modern Democrats seem like a rational group of statesmen. She’s a good writer with a terrible track record of prediction and analysis. I think it is hilarious how she’s putting trigger warnings on her posts nowadays after telling her readers that Trump is a fascist dictator in waiting.
Even more hilarious is how she categorizes herself as a “Lincoln Republican” while doing things like disparaging Vance’s completely on-the-nose remarks at the Munich conference while defending European censorship as a “value”.
She rarely writes about all of the Democrats remarkable successes right here in Maine, for some reason. I would love to hear her explain the present condition of Lewiston or Portland.
Lately I’ve been paying close attention to independent journalist Matt Taibbi on X, whose reputation and credentials are pretty impeccable. His post this morning got my attention. All it said was “incoming”, and shortly afterwards some significant documentation has been released.
If I compare what is unfolding today to the entire Russian Collusion hoax, where no receipts were ever presented to the public as any kind of proof, it is night-and-day levels of difference.
Jon Stewart is just sad these days.
NeverTrumpers aren’t “classical conservatives” by any stretch. The ones I’ve observed are either upset that their relevance is diminishing and/or beneficiaries of the corrupt blob of NGO’s, government bureaucracy, and intertwined corporate interests.
Besides Taibbi, suggested sources for the unfolding Obama/Clinton sedition scandal would be Mike Benz and Mike Flynn, who have insight into how the state department actually operates.
Anyway, more info was released this morning than in all the years the public was told, repeatedly, by every source you just mentioned that, “the walls are closing in on Trump”. I think you should seriously consider the possibility that you’ve been being deceived and manipulated by the legacy media. Similarly, I can easily find deception in nearly every post Richardson makes. It took about 10 seconds when I just popped over to her most recent post.
“And yet six months into the second Trump administration, on the sixtieth anniversary of the law that symbolized the modern American state by establishing Medicare and Medicaid, it’s clear we are indeed in a revolution designed to destroy the government we have known in favor of the radical right-wing government envisioned by those who wrote Project 2025.”
From the beginning, the administration declared war on the words that protected equal rights for all Americans, fired women and racial minorities from leadership positions, and attacked transgender Americans.
She is quite adept at framing her arguments in this sort of deceptive way. As an historian, she knows quite well that what Trump is engaging in is a counter-revolution, not a revolution. The revolution was the introduction of DEI and transgenderism into public policy, which completely reshaped how government functioned.
I also suspect she knows very well that Trump isn’t in any way fascist, let alone similar to a National Socialist, but she may not be due to her specialty in 19th Century American history.
I don’t understand how any serious historian could read modern academic literature like Hitler’s National Socialism or Hitler’s Beneficiaries and come to the conclusion that Trump, MAGA, or the Republican party bears even the slightest resemblance to National Socialism or Hitler himself.
Richardson’s perspective is a lot easier to understand when you realize how lucrative it can be to leverage your academic credentials and writing skills to disparage Trump. Her massive audience has made her the highest earning author on substack, who eagerly eat up her wildly speculative takes that validate all of the hysteria of the last decade.
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