Does the Fake News Explain Anything at All?

The other night I happened to catch a discussion on MS-NBC between Chris Hayes and Michelle Goldberg (from the failing New York Times) about whether Trump should be allowed to deliver ‘seditious’ tirades on TV. After all, this is a guy who provoked the January 6th riot, is an ‘enemy of American democracy and has promised that he will continue his ‘assault’ on the government if he is elected in 2024.

In other words, according to these two experts on contemporary politics, who weren’t even alive when Richard Nixon was President, we need to ask whether TV news stations should be giving someone free airtime to organize a campaign against the national state.

Of course, the fact is (note the word ‘fact’) that after more than three years of continuous investigations by multiple authorities (with subpoena power, by the way), nobody has yet to come up with one, single connection or any connection between Trump and the schmucks who smashed into the Capitol on January 6th, and the fact is (note the use of that word ‘fact’ again) that there has not been the slightest hint of any attempt by Trump to get the military to come out and support the January 6th rioters with armed force.

Now maybe I’m wrong, and maybe I don’t know anything about history or political events, but I always thought that if you were going to lead an insurrection, i.e., a physical assault against the government, you need to equip and direct either a large group of armed followers to initiate and lead the attack, or you needed…