Jason Stanley

The New York Times has elevated all of the normalizers.

They did bring M. Gasson on, which was really essential, but basically the media has been trying to normalize and sane wash.

I noticed after the Davos speech, my journalist friends in Africa

We're all passing around on social media.

Not that I'm a big social media person, but they're passing around on Instagram.

The one thing I a the the part about Somalian refugees where Trump was at his most explicitly racist, most extreme, most Nazi, most unhinged, and that that clip

was not used, was not prominently featured.

It was total fascist, white supremacist,

you know, extremity, extremism.

But it was just like, you see even the legacy media here trying to sane wash, trying to normalize, trying to find reasons, writing as if there are reasons.

Now we've seen CBS, CBS, the Ellisons have already taken over, CBS, Barry Weiss, who pioneered the culture war side of Trumpism.

is a major, major figure in the ideological center of Trumpism, the panic about critical race theory, all of those culture war structures she helped pioneer.

She runs CBS.

Now, why is that important that CBS is a Trump network, is a regime network now?

Because everyone knows not to cite Fox.

But if CBS says something, now CBS will be sort of giving you this kind of, okay, we're giving you the sort of official newsy news versions of things, but it's going to be a Trumpified newsy news version of things.

So you're going to have the legacy media, the CBS, the standard bearer network, giving you sort of neutral toned Trump news.

versions of things.

So and we're going to see that we're going to see more and more networks fall into line like that.

We're already seeing a brand.