• @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    There is a strange, substantive vacuum in this campaign cycle.

    There have been for every presidential election from the 1980 one onward.

    Is it even worse now? Yes. Is it only or even mainly the fault of the Mango Mussolini? Far from it!

    The mainstream media, including WaPo, could ignore him every time he says anything not directly related to policy priorities and the world would be much better for it.

    Particularly because he would almost certainly lose if they did that and we’d only have to suffer 4 more years of Biden rather than the end of democracy as we know it.

    That’s not as profitable for the billionaire-owned media, through 😮‍💨