Across the board this week the media has rebuffed Trump's election antics as irrelevant.

If they had that same energy towards him 5 years ago instead of giving him unprecedented airtime, analyzing every ALL CAPS tweet, maybe we wouldn't be in this situation.
Turns out when you fuel the flames of ignorance nightly for ratings, treating politics as a game instead of something that has the capability to snuff out 240,000 American lives, you are the problem.
Like it or not, we created this monster.

He's an embodiment of America's paranoia and death grip on the fantasy of white superiority.

So yes, we ALL have a lot of work to do.
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