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Media Needs to Call out Trump Enablers, Not Coddle Them
‘Sane’ Republicans sound just as unhinged as Trump cultists
Do you ever read a piece of writing so awful it stops you in your tracks? I did this a few days ago. It was an article by syndicated columnist Mike Kelly. The column titled, “It’s time for Republicans to take back their party from the crazies,” was supposed to be a plea to Republicans to walk back from the edge and start listening to the sane voices in the party, not the Trump cultists.
I read it because I’ve been preaching a similar message. Unfortunately, as I got further into the column, I found some glaring errors. These are errors you would have expected an editor at a major publication such as USA Today to have caught. Towards the end of the article, Kelly quotes Steve Rogers, a retired New Jersey cop. Kelley paints Rogers, as a pragmatic Republican compared to the disgraced New York City Police Chief Bernard Kerik (also quoted), who is a dedicated MAGA cultist. Kerik, who was convicted for tax evasion, insisted there was election fraud. (Trump’s legal team has failed to provide any evidence of this in about 60 legal cases.)
One of the greatest presidents?
But Rogers is just as delusional as Kerik, even though Kelly describes him as realistic.
