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Originally Posted by Mathgod
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.
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Originally Posted by dino7c
You can't let Trump get away with murder because its a distraction and the democrats are bad too
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There is a big difference between not holding someone accountable and pretending that political opponents and news media focusing entirely on what that person did is going to actually fix anything today. Trump is and always was a symptom of the problem, not the cause.