In a recent article in The Free Press Niall Ferguson wrote that “We’re All Soviets Now.” (See: https://www.thefp.com/p/were-all-soviets-now) Among the notions he discussed were our gerontocracy elite, declining health care for the average citizen abetted by alcohol and opiods, and the rise of the DEI apparatchiks. However, he left out another crucial factor. In America we have a party line that appears little different from the days of Pravda and Izvestia.
All you have to do is
to look at the shifting party line on the Democratic nominee for president. Six
months ago, President Biden was at the top of his game and fully capable of
serving another four years. Then of a sudden in June, he was a doddering old
fool who had to go. Once Biden withdrew there was to be a contested
mini-primary, but in a day or two Kamala Harris became the anointed one. It
would be enough to get a dedicated Kremlinologist’s head spinning.
With the exception of
Fox News and a few heterodox media outlets, the media now speaks as one by
being all-in for Harris and through it all Donald Trump, the new Trotsky, has
to remain in exile from power. Although being anti-Trump remains the media’s
lodestar, I would not be surprised that with respect to Kamala Harris, the
fickle party line will yet again shift a few more times.
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