Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Efforts to super-spin the Trump "legacy" are already here

A lot will depend on what the major corporate media outlets do. My own take is that they're not likely to risk their only partially rebuilt, at best, reputations with younger age groups, by reverting to what they did in 2015-16. But I don't claim to really know.
But while some Republicans might be eager to “walk away from Trump,” Heye added, “many will continue talking about the things in the administration they supported”—from tax cuts and deregulation to flooding the judiciary with conservatives.

Indeed, the narrative now forming in some GOP circles presents Trump as a secondary figure who presided over an array of important accomplishments thanks to the wisdom and guidance of the Republicans in his orbit. In these accounts, Trump’s race-baiting, corruption, and cruel immigration policies—not to mention his attempts to overturn an election—are treated as minor subplots, rather than defining features. - The Atlantic

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