While MAGA-loving Republicans celebrated Trump’s pick for running mate this week, so did Democrats. Andrew Feinberg reports on why the opposition believes Vance is such an easy target for their upcoming campaigns
That’s assuming that the Democrats’ opposition research cuts through editorial directives at the billionaire-owned media and “fact checking” on corporate social media. If the Owners are set on Trump, the NYT, CNN, and such will bury any adverse revelations about Vance, instead running non-stories about him having conservative/libertarian views within the Overton window or once having gotten someone’s name wrong or something, and that Mother Jones story about mandatory period tracking or privatising the Weather Service will be shadowbanned as “false” because Zuck says so. A few hundred trekkies on Mastodon will know the truth and chant it to themselves with increasing desperation, seeming to anyone stumbling in from the outside world like the horsepaste/5G-vaccine/ancient-astronaut truthers on boomer Facebook groups.
That’s assuming that the Democrats’ opposition research cuts through editorial directives at the billionaire-owned media and “fact checking” on corporate social media. If the Owners are set on Trump, the NYT, CNN, and such will bury any adverse revelations about Vance, instead running non-stories about him having conservative/libertarian views within the Overton window or once having gotten someone’s name wrong or something, and that Mother Jones story about mandatory period tracking or privatising the Weather Service will be shadowbanned as “false” because Zuck says so. A few hundred trekkies on Mastodon will know the truth and chant it to themselves with increasing desperation, seeming to anyone stumbling in from the outside world like the horsepaste/5G-vaccine/ancient-astronaut truthers on boomer Facebook groups.