Above: Edvard Munch’s iconic screaming man has been interpretated as signifying the anxiety of the human condition. He has his eyes wide open but his hands are firmly pressed against his ears. The so-called Three Wise Monkeys are also trying to shut out reality. At least Munch’s man is screaming. The monkey’s could be said to represent much of the media as they downplay the danger to democracy of a Trump presidency.

Here’s a Fox News website main page. They see evil, hear evil, and speak evil which to them represents seeing evil in a female athlete being forced to compete against “a biological male” and how awful Biden’s economic plan is.

The Washington Post, some say belatedly, called Trump out for his fascism in the headline and article below:

There’s been a lot of criticism about major news outlets have been covering Trump’s campaign for president as if he’s a “normal” candidate. See for example:

Also: ‘The enemy of the people’: How Trump plans to exact his revenge on the media, by John Stoehr.

Excerpt:

My compatriots do this by treating Trump, not so much with kid gloves, but with the deference usually afforded candidates who do not make plans to prosecute their political enemies, use the military to crush dissent and maintain relations with society’s criminal nihilists. In other words, Trump has already crossed the line, indeed he keeps crossing it, yet my compatriots in the Washington press corps, who really do know better, keep pretending, by way of treating him with such incredible deference, as if he does not, every day, cross that line.

Put another way, my compatriots in the Washington press crops are in the process of bringing “bothsides” to an arch, tragic conclusion. They are setting side-by-side two candidates (Trump and Joe Biden) who should not be set side-by-side by a class of professionals that claims to serve democracy and the freedoms that democracy normally affords. And they are setting them side-by-side in the name of neutrality, thus giving “bothsides” a legitimacy that “bothsides” can’t have in a democracy.

I’ve seen some coverage praising The Washington Post (for this article) for using the Hitler and Mussolini comparison in their headline (shown above).

But then there’s what Fox News (sample above is from today) decides to cover where the main story is about a male trans athlete. I found one article from a local Fox News station “Trump’s incendiary ‘vermin’ remarks prompt backlash” here (but Fox News may have had other articles).

How many people are going to read the following?

I live in an MSNBC TV and RawStory website world where I pay attention to stories like these.

I read artilces like this:

I see video clips of Trump telling use what he wants to do if he’s president again.

This lack of what I find to be the absence of alarming coverage except on the media I follow about Trump’s fascism is just one aspect of my overwhelming worry about the future for the country.

I saw Steve Bannon who is often considered to be one of Trump’s primary brain trust being asked about all of the draconian measures Trump wants to take to turn the country into a ruthless authoritarion dictatorship where all his political enemies and people he consider undesirable are somehow eliminated. He said he fully endorsed his taking these actions.

It isn’t that Trump and his Joseph Goebells, Martin Bormanns, Hermann Görings, and Heinrich Himmlers (Bannon, Stephen Miller, Jason Miller (upper right below, who MSNBC’s Paul Waldman charitably called ghoulish), and Tucker Carlson among others are giving him advice and encouraging him in his most malevolent fantasies that bothers me.

You could say that there is a resemblance between Stephen Miller and the ghoul depicted here:

It’s already been speculated that someone other than Trump, possibly Jason Miller, suggested Trump use the word “vermin” since the word “rats” is more like something he’d say.

I wrote this yesterday here, but I want to repeat it:

What keeps me awake at night is knowing that there is a large group of Americans who aren’t blind to the fact that Trump wants to turn us into a fascist dictatorship. They admire Hitler. They desire this outcome. 

Given the electoral college, gerrymandering, and whatever manipulations to a stop free and fair elections the Republicans pull, it is possible that while the less than half the country really wants us to become the Fourth Reich and while losing the popular vote – again – Trump could still become the next president.

Update: I just noticed that HuffPost used the see no evil meme in a title for this article.

Marjorie Taylor Greene said, “I would say that the Democrats are 1930s fascists and Nazis…”

My two blogs posted yesterday:

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