A study during the Dec 19 election found that 88% of Conservative campaign ads were untruthful. I still think about this exchange, days before the election. The normalising of Conservative lies. The false equivalence. The suggestion that all political parties were as bad.
I posted a messier clip at the time https://twitter.com/rachshabi/status/1204448166105559040?s=20
I honestly wince at this clip: I think I sound screechy and hectoring. But underneath it was just this sense of panic and confusion at reality being reordered, in real time, live on TV
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