Does the Fake News Understand Trump?

Mike Weisser
4 min readJust now

Once again, an article in The Atlantic demonstrates that the Fake News simply doesn’t know what’s going on. And the reason for this continued demonstration of unintended stupidity isn’t because the Fake News writers and editors are too dumb to understand what’s going on.

The reason we continue to get analyses of the current political situation from the Fake News which are so woefully misunderstood is that when the average age of your writing and editorial staff is probably around 35 years or so, these people simply don’t have the perspective or experience which would give them the necessary intellectual filters to use in determining whether what they see or hear is really anything which is based on reality and therefore should be reported as ‘news.’

And even the senior editor is in his 50’s, this means he came of age after the Soviet Union disappeared, long after Ronald Reagan spearheaded the so-called conservative ‘revolution,’ and a lifetime after the civil rights struggle was over and done with, plus there was something called the Tet Offensive and then we got our asses kicked out of Viet Nam.

As for how Trump has tried to shanghai the national government’s democratic practices, how do you compare stealing some classified documents out of the White House with Watergate and the capers of Gordon Liddy, Howard Hunt, and the…

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