13. The campaign press does something else. It gives the impression that power creates order—that the party in power is more organized than the party out of party, otherwise it wouldn’t be in power. Not so.
— John Stoehr's Editorial Board (@johnastoehr) August 2, 2019
The corporate media have long since normalized Trump. And the ”normal“ (and lazy) assumption is that the incumbent President will be re-elected. The coverage on the Democratic race has so far been sad.
David Dayen also has some good observations in CNN's Debate Fail The American Prospect 07/31/2019:
Entertainment industry morons only understand how to stage television through the lens of forcing conflict. The questions weren’t really prompts as much as they were invitations to fight. The network had two progressive Democratic front-runners in Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and they saw their role as taking them down a peg. Tomato cans like John Delaney and John Hickenlooper tried to oblige (while failing miserably) because this is the last time more than 10 Americans will ever hear them speak ever again. So they took their shot. [my emphasis]
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