05-04-2020, 09:46 PM
Trump has earned the opprobrium. The media at best try to be objective, but when something or someone is truly horrible the media can't cover for it. There is no sugar-coating a killer earthquake or hurricane. There is no sugar-coating the awfulness of a Trabant or the movie CATS. (I didn't see the movie, but it didn't look promising).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.