“Elite” journalists in the mainstream media continue to paint a Donald Trump presidency as the beginning of the end of American politics, a doomsday scenario that belies the public’s optimism for 2017.
“There is one overarchingly huge story, a very bigly story … that is the upending of American politics. The story is of the outs coming in and the ins going out. The story is trying to explain to the American people what’s happened to their two main parties,” The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg told CBS’ Face The Nation.
“The deeper story is globalization and technological disruption and anxiety born of rapid change, rapid destabilizing change, the fragility of institutions – all of that is there undergirding the larger more immediate story of how did Donald Trump become president of the United States and what it means for not only how America understands itself, but also how the world understands America,” he continued.
Goldberg suggested that America may abandon its role as a world peacemaker under President Trump.
“We are at a hinge moment in history,” he claimed. “Since 1945, we have played a certain role in the world, and it’s not entirely clear that after Jan. 20 we are going to play that same role.” – READ MORE
Media suicide watch: Elites predict doom and gloom in Trump era
[ditty_news_ticker id=”25027″]