The Mass of News Reporting in the United States Is Pathetic

Whatever your political stripes, if you’re an American, I urge you occasionally to take in a few minutes of Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, or perhaps some other source of far-right-wing programming that I may have missed.

A couple of points you’ll notice immediately:

1) Joe Biden comes up in a huge percentage of all news stories.  Yes, that’s the former president whose actual relevance in our world today ranks just under how we ought to keep our rain gutters free of fallen leaves.

2) Democrats are praying that Donald Trump is dead, hanging their hopes on the fact that he took a few days off.

In truth, many progressives actually do root for an untimely death of our 47th president, though most of us see Trump’s death, under any and all circumstances, as a missed opportunity for redemption.  We can either succeed in repudiating an authoritarian dictator in the United States or we can’t.

It’s that simple. We’re either a greater, smarter country than Trumpism, or we aren’t.  The premature death of Donald Trump won’t help us at all.