Talk about grasping at straws.
Then again, what else is a deeply desultory, directionless media to do?
After all, all the liberal talking heads have been steadily going bonkers ever since Comrade Kamala lost the presidential election.
One of the more well-deserved losses in history – heck, even Joe and Jill Biden probably agree – but the liberal media spent rather minimal time fixating on what a disaster a wholly inexperienced Harris would be.
Instead, the media became increasingly hyperbolic over President Donald Trump instead, saber rattling more fiercely than ever in order to “save democracy.”
And, in one of the more illustrious examples as of yet, Slate magazine apparently thought it would be a great idea to publish a highly divisive opinion piece that boldly refers to actions undertaken by the Trump administration as “terrifying.”
“Trump Issued Perhaps His Most Terrifying Executive Order on Tuesday,” Slate boomed, clearly aiming to instill fear deep into all of its readership.
The article provides several intriguing insights into all the ways in which mainstream media is continuing to flip out over the forward momentum of the Trump administration.
And, since Slate apparently cannot criticize one policy individually, it decided to attack Trump generally … with the rather predictable hyperbole.
That’s right: Yet another media outlet has proclaimed that Trump is apparently overseeing a “dictatorship.”
“The defining attribute of a dictatorship, as well as of kingship in its ancient and absolute form, is the assertion that law – its making, interpretation, adjudication, and enforcement – is an emanation of the will of one man,” Slate declared.
Right. By all means, Slate, carry on in a rather grand, borderline baroque manner.
Slate then proceeds to provide an extended metaphor between President Donald Trump and King James I.
The Slate article even goes so far as to cite from The True Law of Free Monarchies, a work published by King James I in 1598, in an effort to further “prove” the dictatorship of Trump.
This passage ostensibly reaffirms the importance of a single man controlling the “making, interpretation, adjudication, and enforcement” of all laws, notably when referencing how kings “author” laws:
“Before any estates or ranks of men, before any parliaments were holden, or laws made, and by them was the land distributed, which at first was wholly theirs. And so it follows of necessity that kings were the authors and makers of the laws, and not the laws of the kings.”
Trotting out a reference from more than four centuries ago is a tad dramatic, but it is admittedly more educational than usual.
Indeed, CNN and MSNBC are generally not renowned for their literary or philosophical intertextuality.
That said, while the Slate article has clear merit in terms of its intertextuality and some educational attributes, these benefits are severely undermined when evaluating its rather hyperbolic propaganda.
How hyperbolic?
Well, Slate claimed that Trump has apparently “subdued Congress” and will “crush any honest public servant,” effectively declaring him to be a de facto dictator.
“One can, if willfully blind, ignore as a kind of twisted playfulness Trump’s social media quotations of Napoleon or the White House’s posting of an image of Trump wearing a crown. But there is nothing playful in the content of Trump’s executive orders or the behavior of his thuggish minions at DOJ. Having already subdued Congress, Trump has now openly announced that the Führerprinzip governs the executive branch and that he will crush any honest public servant who dissents,” Slate concluded.
Is that so?
Well, to be fair, the woke globalists crushed every media news outlet that attempted to report on the nefarious shenanigans of Biden and Co. … and that particular censorship is now formally on the record.
A real shame that the anti-Trump zealots acted so dishonestly in their efforts to discredit Trump, as they are now completely bereft of credibility.
Author: Ofelia Thornton
