June 28: Who Is Running the Country? Let s See&

But whatever happens in the election, it will be difficult for Americans to unsee the extent to which the press has been carrying water for a walking corpse over the past four years. As Tablet Literary Editor David Samuels tells The Scroll via email,

Over the past decade, we have seen a set of once separately-credentialed and self-supporting, and therefore self-policing and more or less honorable professions such journalism, publishing, academia and the law embarrassingly become creepy, lower-level apparatchiks in Barack Obama s Democratic Party. The thing which members of this class miss is that no one believes a word any of them say. Their attempts to credential or regulate social reality only testify to the extent of their own petty personal vanity. I personally pay zero attention to Lawrence Tribe s legal opinions, the same way I couldn t care less what Thomas Friedman or David Ignatius or any newspaper or magazine editor in American has to say about foreign policy or any other subject because no one does, because they re all so obviously in the tank. Their job isn t to explain anything, but to give people permission to say the most obvious things about their own realities without being denounced as capitalist-roaders or imperialist wreckers, or whatever the big thought-crimes are these days.

via thedailyscroll.substack.com

This is just one of the many things noticed in this piece.

Park MacDougald.