Carusone: Media needs to do a better job of contextualizing Trump’s “dangerous” rhetoric
From the October 20, 2024, edition of The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
JONATHAN CAPEHART (HOST): We’ve been so inundated by Trump’s water canon of crazy that some of us don’t take what he says seriously. He’s considered more of a stand up comedian riffing his greatest hateful hits than a barely veiled tyrant bent on retribution. And what makes this especially troubling is that almost half the country supports him in spite of it, or maybe because of it. As Michael Sokolove of The New York Times soberingly writes about the Trump supporters he talked to in Riegelsville, Pennsylvania, a town that Trump won by just two votes in 2020, “what if what his supporters really want and do not express is the Trump vibe? All the name calling, coarseness, and bullying, the hyper masculine authoritarian rhetoric. Mr. Trump is peddling that poison like political crack and half the nation is hooked, the other half repulsed. If it works, and he is elected, it promises four more years of national political warfare.”
Folks, this isn’t normal. It’s dangerous. And I pray that a majority of the American people agree with me.
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