Saturday, July 06, 2024

Either/Or

Journalists make lousy historians.

They want the narrative to be neat and clean and straightforward. And when it isn’t, they suspect a shifting set of excuses. And when it is, they suspect an invented narrative.

When so often the truth is neither/nor.  And certainly in between.

(When was the last time you saw “shifting explanations” used in a story about Trump?  Maybe it will appear in connection with “Project 2025.” Only because that isn’t yet “old news.” But we’ll see if it happens even then.)

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