"Major media outlets’ uniform criticism of Cannon’s ruling doesn’t change the fact that there’s still a prevailing cloud of “decorum” preventing those same outlets from stating the obvious: that Cannon is in no small part doing what she was hired to do by a broader movement of ideologues. Like Trump in some respects, Cannon is not an aberration, but an acute symptom and manifestation of something larger, and much more dangerous."
God I wish more people would say this. The amount of people who are actually surprised that this happened is mind-numbing.
"Major media outlets’ uniform criticism of Cannon’s ruling doesn’t change the fact that there’s still a prevailing cloud of “decorum” preventing those same outlets from stating the obvious: that Cannon is in no small part doing what she was hired to do by a broader movement of ideologues. Like Trump in some respects, Cannon is not an aberration, but an acute symptom and manifestation of something larger, and much more dangerous."
God I wish more people would say this. The amount of people who are actually surprised that this happened is mind-numbing.
OK, so how do we fix this without bringing back French Revolution solutions?
"Liberty, egality, fraternity"
Bring on the revolution dear citizens
(That you Dr Rossman professor of history Doane University during the flower power years)