Dave, were you old enough to remember how the press treated President Ronald Reagan when he was in office? I was. There was no such thing as Twitter back then, but there was a lot of staff turn over and there was lots of red meat for the press gnaw on when it came to scandals. Read any newspaper from the time and you’ll notice that the media thought very poorly of Reagan for many years.
The fact is that some professions tend to lean left and some tend to lean right. English professors, Sociologists, and yes, Journalism majors all tend to lean LEFT. I do not recall a single right leaning president that received a positive view by the media in recent history. I’m not expecting the insane adulation that Obama had in his eight years in office. But the vitriol and selective reporting by most media outlets is actually causing people to turn tune away from the routine media outlets because they are so strident.
So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the Journalism majors who mostly lean left, tend to bandy poorly defined terms such as Fascist all over the place. It is their right; but I also have the right not to take them seriously. Trump doesn’t have to say the words “fake news” to anyone. In fact, he’s his own worst enemy in that regard. If Trump ditched his Twitter account and stopped making off-the-cuff remarks, his approval ratings would go up overnight.
You then pulled the Nazi card out. I had teachers, extended family, and mentors with their own concentration camp stories. I know their stories as well if not better than you. Just remember this: Regardless of how you classify the Nazi party, the people who voted for them in the late 1920s and early 1930s were voting for what they thought was Socialism.
So if you’re trying to tell us that it must be something about the right wing that causes this, just know that the very same principles apply to the left.
