{"id":29891,"date":"2023-11-14T12:31:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=29891"},"modified":"2023-11-14T12:31:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:31:06","slug":"warnings-grow-that-us-media-again-failing-to-accurately-cover-trumps-fascist-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/14\/warnings-grow-that-us-media-again-failing-to-accurately-cover-trumps-fascist-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Warnings Grow That US Media Again Failing to Accurately Cover Trump’s Fascist Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump is seen during the UFC 295 event at Madison Square Garden on November 11, 2023 in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Chris Unger\/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em><\/em>“If it wasn’t already clear, our democracy is in very serious danger.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JESSICA CORBETT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nov 13, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is the GOP front-runner for 2024, setting up an expected rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden, but American media coverage of the Republican’s campaign is already showing that many journalists didn’t learn important lessons about how to report on his extremism, according to recent analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a Saturday rally, Trump pledged to “root out the communist, Marxist, fascist, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections and will do anything possible\u2014they’ll do anything, whether legally or illegally\u2014to destroy America and to destroy the American dream.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The real threat is not from the radical right; the real threat is from the radical left, and it’s growing every day, every single day. The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within,” added Trump\u2014who currently faces four criminal cases, two of which relate to his efforts to overturn his 2020 loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Common Dreams <\/em>reported<\/a>, Trump’s openly fascistic comments on Saturday quickly drew comparisons to Nazi rhetoric, particularly the use of the word “vermin.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The press must get across to American citizens the crucial importance of this election and the dangers of a Trump win.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is straight-up Nazi talk, in a way he’s never done quite before. To announce that the real enemy is domestic and then to speak of that enemy in subhuman terms is Fascism 101. Especially that particular word,” The New Republic<\/em> editor Michael Tomasky wrote<\/a> Sunday, referencing some antisemitic content from the 1930s and ’40s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Trump’s rats are a much broader category,” Tomasky continued, “and in that sense an even more dangerous one\u2014he means whoever manages to offend him while exercising their constitutionally guaranteed right to register dissent and to criticize him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, as Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> columnist Will Bunch emphasized<\/a> Sunday, “in one of the most perilous moments of crisis the world has seen in 75 years, and with the basic notions of free speech under assault<\/a>, most newsrooms aren’t fighting back. They are, instead, pulling their punches in a defensive, ‘rope-a-dope’ crouch, and thus failing to truly inform\u2014when democracy itself is at risk.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds…fascist.

We can't let this man anywhere near the Oval Office again. Our democracy is at stake. https:\/\/t.co\/XAOmcU4Mf2<\/a><\/p>— Sean Eldridge (@SeanEldridge) November 13, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>