The Regularly Scheduled "Never Hold Republicans Accountable" Train Is Leaving The Station
Ht to DUer JHB for the tip:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214312259#post6
https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-regularly-scheduled-never-hold.html
The Regularly Scheduled "Never Hold Republicans Accountable" Train Is Leaving The Station
From
The Washington Post:
Let history, not partisans, prosecute
A Trump truth tribunal is not the answer. Preserving presidential records is.
‘The most humane and reasonable way to deal with all these people, if we survive this, is some kind of truth and reconciliation commission,” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes tweeted this month, about anti-maskers in the Trump administration. Days later, NPR ran a story about the possibility of a post-Trump truth and reconciliation commission. This is a terrible idea...
Because aren't Both Sides -- all sides --
really to blame here?
In the end, the strongest argument against either criminal trials or a truth tribunal, should Biden win, is that it would let the Democratic Party and every other institution that is not the Republican Party off the hook for driving the nation into a flaming cauldron. The left is keen to blame the right. But what the nation needs, pretty urgently, is self-reflection, not only from Republicans but also from establishment Democrats and progressives and liberals and journalists and educators and activists and social media companies and, honestly, everyone.
And The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof jumps right on board:
There have been calls on the left for a truth and reconciliation commission to investigate Trump when he is out of office. Jill Lepore argues quite eloquently that this would be a bad idea: https://t.co/xKtLXKNvz1
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) [link:
There are days when it sure seems like everyone in the mainstream media ,must have been passed-out-drunk during the entire Dubya Administration and the entire Obama Administration. But I know Kristof was at least marginally aware of the Age of Dubya because 15 years ago he was writing about all the wholesale changes the press would have to undertake if they wanted to win back the trust of the public:
...the one thing Democrats and Republicans agree on is that the news media are not trustworthy...
In short, the climate for freedom of the press in the U.S. feels more ominous than it has for decades. One appropriate response is to protest vociferously and seek the passage of a federal shield law for journalists. But it's also crucial for us to reflect on why this is happening now -- and a major reason, I think, is that we in the news media are widely perceived as arrogant, out of touch and untrustworthy.
And if bold steps were not taken immediately, some day soon...
Unless we can recover the public trust, our protests about reporters' going to jail will come across as self-serving whining. And we'll wake up one day to find ourselves on the wrong side of history.
Well congratulations Nick! You have now officially arrived on the wrong side of history.
