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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
I think I'm seeing a resemblance to Trump's rise in 2015-16 and the rise of Zohran Mamdani. The more both parties and the press demonize him, the more people are flocking to him, and more rabid his supporters get. People don't react well to the pile on. It starts feeling concerted, and makes you more sympathetic not less. Especially when the things you are using to demonize the person actually strikes a cord with people.
Edit: This latest stuff from the New York Times is a perfect example of how ridiculous it is getting. They had a leak from a data breach of Columbia University that he marked Asian and African American on his application. How is that a scandal. He literally is both. I guess they are trying to play off the anti-DEI thing, but the kicker here is he didn't get into Columbia. WTF does it matter?
And the worse thing: The source that gave them the information is a literal Neo-Nazi who promotes eugenics. They published hacked information from a Nazi. That is a level of desperation that makes Zohran look dangerous to the establishment in a good way.
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Agree. And now you have one of those reporters crying on social media that his story didn't change the betting markets in the mayoral race. And let's not forget that they refused to report on the JD Vance vetting information because it came from a hacked source.
People can sense when there is unequal treatment in media. In 2016, they went after Trump for the sexual harassment and racism, which is fair game. But they ignored the fact that he was running against a candidate who ran a racist campaign against Obama and is married to a world-famous sex pest. The Russia stuff turned out to be a dud, too, and crushed what little credibility they had left.
Then when things finally catch up to Trump, they do it again. Completely ignoring Biden's mental decline during his Presidency and running cover for his genocide. And while the Hunter Biden stuff was never as bad as the right made it out to be, there was corruption in there that was largely ignored.
I think it's more of an issue when the candidate is an outsider, as Zohran and Trump were. Mainstream media hate those people as they're a threat to the status quo. When you're going to bat for Andrew Cuomo of all people, a corrupt pervert who killed countless seniors during COVID, people know something smells. All these stories do is further degrade trust in media and help outsiders who receive the unfair treatment.