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No More Autonomous Zones, Please
Performative protests are handing the election to Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump should be facing certain defeat at the ballot box in November. He certainly hasn’t had an easy presidency; with impeachment, the border crisis, Covid-19, the George Floyd protests, and impeachment.
He hasn’t been an easy president, either.
He has few friends in the press, if any. Coverage of the Trump presidency has never been favorable, even when the economy was good or the first meaningful criminal justice reform measure in decades passed or when Trump signed a law making animal cruelty a federal felony.
Drawing attention to anything positive, however uncontroversial, about the Trump Presidency is considered by many mainstream media outlets to be a form of inexcusable complicity; normalizing Donald Trump and all he has come to stand for in the minds of American liberals.
It is difficult to feel sorry for Trump; he isn’t endearing. Elected Democrats hate him. Plenty of career Republicans don’t like him, they hate what he has done to the party and to politics.
Independent, Libertarian and undecided voters- those coveted demographics which will be critical in a tight race like 2020- have proven both immune to Trump’s dubious charms and impervious to the many dubious…