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Moderates, Mainstream Media Have Their Heads in the Sand When It Comes to GOP’s Assault on America
That a good portion of the American population, following the Trump-led Republican Party and right-wing media, has dissociated from reality should be clear to the many not themselves residing in the ever-enlarging bubble of extremist America.
The denials of reality in favor of inhabiting a universe of alternative facts abound and are increasingly violent and vociferous. It’s not enough, for example, for those who don’t believe in the efficacy of the COVID vaccines to simply refrain from getting vaccinated, they have to stop others from receiving it (so much for “personal freedom”!), as we have seen with anti-vaxxers not just protesting but disrupting vaccination sites and, most severely, in the recent case of a Maryland man shooting and killing his pharmacist brother who was administering the vaccine, believing his brother was killing people by doing so.
And we know that this dangerous extremist denial of, or dissociation from, reality is championed within the halls of the U.S. Congress and state legislatures around the nation. Congressional Republicans, with the exception of (maybe) Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, have refused to acknowledge the violent assault on the Capitol last January 6 as anything that requires serious redress or even investigation…
