A remarkable asset from McSweeneys: Lest We Forget The Horrors (via Kottke.org)
McSweeney’s have taken on the task of keeping a running list of all the appalling things that the Trump 2.0 administration are doing.
For me, one of the striking things about this is that during Trump 1.0, the various newspapers of record were, broadly, still monitoring and enumerating what was going on. They now appear to be largely absent (although a hat tip to The Atlantic this week).
In Europe and the UK, the media on the whole is trying to pretend that they can discuss the US administration as if it’s actions are fundamentally sane and reasoned, rather than at best randomly mad, and at worst the first steps toward full-fledged fascism.
Blithering about this on social media is cathartic, but doesn’t promote serious consideration of what we do next – it just gets lost in the clickbait, thirst traps, grifting, and tinfoil hat conspiracies.
We need voices that are perceived as reliable to be doing what McSweeney’s are doing: standing up and saying “this is very, very bad”