The recent SCOTUS ruling that grants the president kingly unlimited powers, should have been enough to end all support for the Republican Party everywhere. It should be the lead story since it became public. It should be splashed across the newspapers, it should be examined 24/7 by legal scholars. That and Project 2025 should be where the expended ink should be going, instead of hobbling the one person that stands between us and full blown fascism: Joe Biden.
I mean, one would think the news media, which Trump has threatened to shut down— or at the very least, kill, or arrest its members— would have a vested interest in not seeing such a malevolent monster back in power. His contempt for dissent and free speech is well documented; we barely survived it the last time. But greed and rationalization is the order of the day; remember what then executive CBS chairman and CEO, Les Moonves ( the guy who hired Stephen Colbert at CBS) said in 2016:
“Trump may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS,”
— Leslie Moonves, CBS executive chairman
Apparently, Moonves does not consider CBS to be a part of America. And maybe that is true. Maybe, in the final analysis, all of these networks deem themselves as somehow sitting outside history, as if their words and actions have zero bearing on anything. They could be reciting Jabberwocky all day, as long as it makes them money $$$. What makes money? chaos, fear, spectacle, and sensationalism.
This is all the GOP have to offer, and our fourth estate has made their choice: they will ride that gravy train to the end of the world.