Eve Moran
Eve Moran
Jul 10, 2017 · 2 min read

I would say that last year’s election is evidence that your faith is misplaced.

Last year, the New York Times helped Donald Trump win. CNN helped him. They didn’t think they were helping him, but they gave him huge amounts of free publicity. They spent a year depicting Clinton as an out of touch, possibly criminal old lady.

And people believed them. Even here, Brass is denigrating the people who are telling the truth:

If environmentalists really want to have an impact — if they want to win because winning is everything — than they need a dramatic shift in strategy. And they need to recognize their mistakes. Spending the next 10 years debating water temperatures in Polynesia with Sean Hannity’s followers seems like a real waste of time.

He says telling people the truth is a waste of time. Ok, maybe that’s true.

Ending pollution is a cause people can support without reservation. Nobody is against the environment.

But this is a lie. The people in the most polluted areas cling to the industries that kill them. That’s a choice they have made. This is Appalachia:

What Brass has written here is a comforting idea: if environmentalists could just get the marketing right, the media would stop making them look like fruitcakes.

But there is always money in making people look stupid. Last year, the mainstream media thought Trump was such a crazy candidate he couldn’t possibly win. And they made a choice to cover Clinton as if she couldn’t lose.

Whoops.

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