I think I figured out why social conservatives are obsessed by America’s supposedly “liberal” media, when liberals know the media isn’t kind to them. It’s because there are so many stories like this one, which asks why Democratic Candidates of Color aren’t gaining any traction in the nominating race.*
On its surface, that certainly sounds like a liberal story, because the subject is the supposed liberal obsession with representation. But such a story doesn’t further a liberal agenda. It actually strives to set liberals — people in general agreement about how the country should be reformed — against each over their ranking of priorities. Like so many other articles of its type, it’s clickbait, not valid analysis, and its formula is repeated constantly: Exaggerate a liberal position as a critique of other liberals. Or, to put it in terms a MAGAt understands, “If you’re so liberal, why aren’t you [blank]?”
Maybe I’m hanging out at the wrong bitchfests, but I haven’t heard any Persons of Color bemoaning this, either in or out of public office. It’s the incredibly lazy scribbling class that regurgitates this formula over and over. Conservatives are correct in identifying the subjects of these stories as “liberal.” They are mistaken in thinking it’s being done to further the liberal cause — it’s actually harming it by keeping it divided.
You know what I have never seen? An article in which reporters go to those Midwestern diners to ask the customers not about Trump, but about their own supposed morals and principles. Why do you Christians love a president who brags about philandering? Why do you deficit-haters accept so much deficit spending? They’ll ask these questions of politicians, who are guaranteed to do no soul-searching before answering, but not the people who claimed to love morality but now embrace its opposite.
See, that’s a question worth asking, because I don’t already know the answer. I’ve wondered about it for three years now.
*The article moronically stacks the minority winners of lots of Congressional races against a national electorate. Nationally, about 60% of Democrats are white. Gee, I wonder why white candidates are doing well?