Everybody just calm down
I'm so tired of fearmongering from hysterical commentators like Donald Trump about how Donald Trump wants to be a dictator.
The current big media groupthink fad, as exemplified by The Washington Post and a special edition of The Atlantic, is to shriek and whine and bawl about how Donald Trump, if re-elected in 2024, will be not just a bad President but an actual dictator.
And this time, they mean it.
Yes, they said that in 2016, and they’ve been saying that about every Republican Presidential candidate for the past five or six decades, but with Trump in 2024 it’s just different because it is.
At least Chris Cuomo - acclaimed journalist, scion of an upstanding political family, and anchor on one of America’s ten highest-rated cable news channels - is pushing back against the media madness:
NewsNation host Chris Cuomo disagreed with the idea that former President Donald Trump would “destroy any of the institutions” if re-elected president in 2024, arguing that “he doesn’t have those kinds of ambitions” as “he’s not a megalomaniac.”
During a debate between Republican commentator Scottie Nell Hughes and former D…
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