nestofstraightlines:

shadowcreature:

trollitics:

Reactions to Donald Trump labelling news media “the enemy of the American people” from: 

• David Axelrod, former adviser to President Barack Obama
• Carl Bernstein, investigative journalist and author who covered the Watergate scandal and was the first to suspect that Nixon was involved
• Gabriel Sherman, national affairs editor at New York magazine
• Eliot A. Cohen, scholar of international affairs and former counselor in the United States Department of State
• Jesse Berney, writer and activist
• Andy Greenwald, writer and critic
• David Evan McMullin, former CIA operations officer and independent candidate during the 2016 United States presidential election

If anything, we’re underreacting.

we are absolutely underreacting.

Surely Donald’s too unsubtle and lacking in tactical intelligence for this to go on for long? People have a lot of blind eyes to turn when it comes to misinformation and prejudice about groups of which they are not a part, but every time he says something like the NYT is an enemy of the people’ there must be a few thousand more people who finally go ’…OK this guys batshit’.