Fredericka Whitfield of CNN simply cannot be that stupid. "But the Dems can't politicize this..." [View all]
The tv went on just long enough for me to hear this fragment about what our president has just done.
I yelled and shut it off. Then I wanted to weep.
CNN, if you're listening, the president is INSANE. You know this.
To talk of the Democrats' response (whether Congress or Mme Speaker or our candidates) as "politicizing" his behavior does not just miss the point, it heads it off past Pluto. This kind of conversation normalizes Trump -- it takes his manifestly abnormal behavior and treats it as though it is normal. I'm not picking on Ms Whitfield in particular, but a whole system of commentary that continues to take Trump's behavior and discuss it as if it were normal. (Judy Woodruff of good old PBS does it too.) Get a grip -- none of this is normal.
I'll continue to pick and choose who I spend my time on, and I'll continue to recommend them and their panels. But what I will not do is tolerate anyone who continues to discuss Trump's behavior in a way that suggests it is normal. Our government is collapsing, and for a good review go to the archives and watch Rachel Maddow's coverage from Day One on "hollowing out."