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Kind of wild that, of all these stories written about how Trump's deportations will likely cause even higher prices in grocery stores, only one was published before election day. pic.twitter.com/OTcAlYEJZ6

— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) November 19, 2024

Kind of wild the CW persists that most voters paid attention to “legacy” news rather than to their own feelings.

Because the objective evidence is that inflation was never that high, nor affected food prices disproportionately. Yet Trump kept insisting that, just as he’d built a border wall he never built, inflation was the worst under Biden in national history.

And apparently enough people bought it to elect him.

But if the MSM had just done a little more reporting on the speculative implications of his promises to deport 20 million people (a promise even Trump’s people are backing away from. What, you thought Mike Johnson was speaking out of turn?) before the election, that would have kept someone from stepping on the butterfly?

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We really need some new narratives. The old ones have just led to the shock and awe of post-election despair. And shock and awe is keeping us from seeing clearly what happened, and what it means.

Mostly, it doesn’t mean Trump gets to do whatever he wants for four years. Or that a vast majority of the country has embraced fascism (which is apparently still fascism only when it scares white people; but not when it’s the 600 year old practice of oppressing non-whites). Or, more ludicrously, that Trump is now President for Life.

Whole sight, or all the rest is desolation.