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When Hillary Clinton called MAGA supporters “deplorables,” it was in the news forever. We still talk about it today. But when Trump called his political enemies “vermin”—actually invoking the words of Adolf Hitler—the press just moves on like it’s nothing. They are failing us.
@georgetakei Trump’s rhetoric is abysmal, but I don’t think there’s necessarily a double standard by the media here. Clinton described voters, “some of whom,” she said were “a basket of deplorables.” People immediately (deliberately) pretended she said ALL Trump supporters were deplorables, and complained so much the media naturally amplified the complaints.
Trump’s use of “vermin” is worse! But he’s not describing everyday voters, because he claims all regular people support him. It would be up to his political opponents to make a big deal of being called vermin, and for various reasons, they aren’t.
The media is many things, but chief among them is lazy. Trump spoon-feeds lazy media what they then regurgitate, and the rest of us expect the media to actually work, but they don’t.
