POLITICO-style savviness is killing us all. Republicans signal their intent to act like a criminal gang, working to help their leader beat the rap, and it’s not reported as “Republicans help Trump beat the rap” but “Why are Democrats fighting against the inevitable?” https://twitter.com/mollyjongfast/status/1359850649098330119

We are witnessing a historic plot against democracy in plain sight. The GOP is declaring its intent to defend Trump’s attack on Congress. But the reportorial frame is so twisted up by the “savvy” idea that this outcome is expected, many people can’t see what’s in front of them.

Media has lost track of how badly its mental framing has drifted. Things that are deeply abnormal - a president’s partisan allies defending a physical assault on Congress, an attack he was widely and immediately held responsible for - have come to seem mundane, only worth a shrug

This is how we sleepwalk into catastrophe: we lose perspective. The five-alarm fire in our democratic system, in which one party tacitly endorses insurrection and sedition, increasingly seems like “politics as usual,” while the people trying to put it out are perceived as naive