This [pervasive disparaging MSM stories about Trump, Thatcher, etc] creates a kind of common knowledge, a shared belief that generously spills onto the uninformed. The shared mass hatred is so toxic to our cohesion as a society, …
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Americans’ pulling loosely together towards prosperity, peace, and letting each other be, has been hammered out of existence, thanks to collective corruption of the people in media.
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Well said. Despite the polls reporting high levels of distrust of the media, the MSM still retains the power to do what Jayne describes.

So much of what’s wrong in this country begins with the malevolent influence of the MSM. ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE MSM.
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I figured the left would dislike a Trump presidency, but didn’t anticipate this level of all-out psychosis. Reminds me of a 3 year old kid throwing full-body tantrum in a public place: lying on the floor, ear-piercing screams, legs kicking, arms flailing, face contorted, head banging …

I prefer the Claremont Review of Books.

There is a huge fallout from breathing (reading everywhere) derogatory commentary in and out continuously, as here with Trump, as is done to Thatcher, etc. This creates a kind of common knowledge, a shared belief that generously spills onto the uninformed. The shared mass hatred is so toxic to our cohesion as a society, a culture doesn’t hold together real well if they despise one another’s beliefs.

My disrespect for the media lies in its destruction of our shared culture. There will only be tiny, partisan, circle dances, now that the media (may they rot in perdition) has fractured our society’s commonality of striving and purpose. Americans’ pulling loosely together towards prosperity, peace, and letting each other be, has been hammered out of existence, thanks to collective corruption of the people in media.
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Claremont’s reviews are fantastic, especially if you don’t really want to take the time to read the whole book (so many books, so little time…).

I have noticed the same oppressive left-dominant zeitgeist in everything: news reports, books, magazines, concerts, sports — it is very hard to push against the suffocating blanket of Those Who Are Right And Insist That We Agree. That may be one reason conservatives gravitated to Trump (and to Milo Y before he flamed out): you have to yell 10 times as hard as you really want to, when the other side is always dialed up to 11.

Every issue of the weekly magazine and every daily on-line version is damp, wet with the editor’s (Remnick) incontinent anti-Trump obsession.

I can understand that some people are obsessed. What I refuse to accept is a person’s deliberate contempt for his responsibility to produce a readable magazine, one that at least tries to maintain a semblance to the standards established over the years.

Remnick should drop the obsessiveness or quit the job, acquire a robe and a placard and start marching on Broadway’s sidewalk.

I won’t cancel my subscription but I will not be renewing.

At Book Passage at the Ferry Building, one of the books on display on the virtue-signaling table was It Can’t Happen Here, and the staff note was “we fear it already has.”

As if there had been a coup or something.

A Leftist dream-world coup that didn’t disrupt their businesses and under which there is no penalty for speaking out against the evil totalitarian.

I prefer the Claremont Review of Books.

There is a huge fallout from breathing (reading everywhere) derogatory commentary in and out continuously, as here with Trump, as is done to Thatcher, etc. This creates a kind of common knowledge, a shared belief that generously spills onto the uninformed. The shared mass hatred is so toxic to our cohesion as a society, a culture doesn’t hold together real well if they despise one another’s beliefs.

My disrespect for the media lies in its destruction of our shared culture. There will only be tiny, partisan, circle dances, now that the media (may they rot in perdition) has fractured our society’s commonality of striving and purpose. Americans’ pulling loosely together towards prosperity, peace, and letting each other be, has been hammered out of existence, thanks to collective corruption of the people in media.