How journalists can stop sanewashing Trump and other politicians. “Sanewashing is the act of packaging radical and outrageous statements in a way that makes them seem normal.”
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We definitely need more eschewing.
It takes some sort of mental illness to decide that Trump's complete unfitness for office hasn't been a story since 2015-- and more so as he gets even more unfit.
That refusal or other failure is indefensible; no sane defense for it.
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