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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
That has been going on since long before Trump, focusing on Trump draws attention away from that and allows it to continue happening. Trump didn’t come up with the ideas of gerrymandering voting districts, Fox News, the term “fake news”, gaslighting, promoting divisiveness, or convincing people that “freedom” means laws don’t apply to you.
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No US president comes close to Trump in terms of making false/misleading claims with such frequency & brazenness, gaslighting the American public, calling any news outlet which tries to hold him to account "the enemy of the people", and doing all the things you just listed. Those things existed before Trump, but he shot them up on steriods. So no, focusing on Trump does not draw attention away from any of that, it draws attention
onto it. This stuff pretty much defines what he and his movement is all about. Let's not forget, polls still consistently show that Trump is by far the frontrunner to win the Republican 2024 nomination, so there's a renewed danger to American democracy on the horizon. Why on Earth should the media ignore it?
With Biden's approval rating slipping in recent weeks, people seem to have short memories when it comes to the horror that was the Trump presidency. The greatest mistake would be to allow that catastrophe to be forgotten.