Political Scientist, Griffith University | Fellow, Australian Research Council | Authoritarian politics, democratization, dictators, election observation, Southeast Asian politics.
Lee Morgenbesser
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Like I’ve said a dozen times now, America’s mainstream media was never ready for democratic backsliding. It has proven to be woefully inept for this moment.
Led by the NYT, it has failed to act as a watchdog, educator, and scrutineer for Trump’s racism, corruption, and authoritarianism.
Just an amazing piece of investigative journalism by @heidiblake.bsky.social. I lost count of how many people need to rot in jail for the rest of their lives.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Watching the Australian media gobble Trump’s social media propaganda up without any sense of hesitation or learning from past mistakes is fucking infuriating.
If they simply reported nothing, they would be better off. So would we.
Waiting to access Canvas to start marking assessment.
Waiting to hear from the university's Cyber Security Officer.
Waiting to see how my personal data will be sold again.
Waiting to be freed from our corporate tech overlords.
Waiting to hear how I have to bear the consequences.
Waiting 😢
Ruh fucking roh
Do anthropologists have a formal set of criteria for a functioning society?
Asking as a political scientist, with America in mind of course.
Equally insane is the complete lack of both condemnation from political elites and spontaneous mass protests from citizens. Indeed, grand corruption is already a fully normalised feature of authoritarian rule in the United States.
America’s mainstream media was never ready for democratic backsliding. It has proven itself to be woefully inept at this moment.
Historians and political scientists will write - with ease - about the failure of the fourth estate to act as a watchdog, educator, and scrutineer for what has occurred.
Lee Morgenbesser
Lee Morgenbesser
Reposting my own thread in the hope it makes a difference to all those in Hungary who believe in democratic ideas, values, norms, and institutions. Best wishes to them.
I don’t get why people simply accept his professed Catholicism? Surely we can be more cynical in the age of Trump?
Maybe, just maybe, his varying faith - look it up! - is a means to a political end…
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
