With democracy in free fall, the media must (finally) wake up

Plus: a piece of heartening news amid the barrage of horrors

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I sometimes feel like I’m living in a nightmare as I watch the twin disasters unfolding in American democracy and American media. I know I’m not alone in that.

You know the democracy part — the Trump regime’s vicious deployment of ICE, its weaponization of the Justice Department, its threats to our traditional allies, its barrage of lies, and much more.

The author and journalist Jonathan Alter recently asked former Republican campaign strategist Stuart Stevens whether America is “in a slide toward autocracy or are we in an autocracy?”

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