Aaron Rupar on Nostr: A key asymmetry of this era of American politics and how it’s covered is that Trump ...
A key asymmetry of this era of American politics and how it’s covered is that Trump is expected to do bad and corrupt things, so when he does it barely qualifies as news. But Dems are expected to be beyond reproach, so anything that seems even slightly suspect is a huge scandal.
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