Mark Jacobs: This is not normal

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26. Thanks for posting that, highplainsdem. I've bookmarked it.

I am a follower of Mark Jacob on Twitter. One of my favorites. Ex-editor at Chicago Tribune & Sun-Times. Co-author of 8 books. He has a free newsletter on politics & media at http://stopthepresses.news that I think you'll really enjoy. As a former editor, he is both an expert on and highly critical of what the NYT and other mainstream newspapers are doing. Plus he has a gift for a concise turn of phrase with a punch.

Here are a few recent Twitter posts of his that I've enjoyed.

MAGA Mike Johnson says he knows “intuitively that a lot of illegals are voting.” Which means he doesn’t know it, has no evidence of it, and is just spouting the Republican propaganda that facts don’t matter but feelings do.
They’re attacking our democracy with vibes.

I’m not asking journalists to campaign for Joe Biden. I’m asking journalists to say clearly that there’s a right-wing plot to create a fascist dictatorship.
Many journalists are afraid to say it even though it’s true. And their refusal to say it makes a dictatorship more likely.

There are working-class Trump supporters out there who think people like Trump and Jared Kushner are sticking up for them — when they’re really sticking them up.