In the modern era, when real news isn’t cooperating with your political strategy, you can simply manufacture your own. The current adminstration is getting good at working the two-fer. For example: How might you strike a nationalist, isolationist posture within a national security frame? Why, illegal immigrants versus the military, of course. As usual, there’s no debate and only the most superficial consideration of actual facts.
Politics as Policy
In the modern era, when real news isn’t cooperating with your political strategy, you can simply manufacture your own. The current adminstration is getting good at working the two-fer. For example: How might you strike a nationalist, isolationist posture within a national security frame? Why, illegal immigrants versus the military, of course. As usual, there’s no debate and only the most superficial consideration of actual facts.
Bush Expected to Call Troops to the Border.
That sound you hear is the starting gun for the mid-term election season. Let’s hope nobody gets in the way of the bullet.
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