Despite its alleged concern for the decline of civility in politics, the New York Times is actually all in on political slander and name-calling lately — when it’s in the service of defeating Donald Trump. For the second time in under two weeks, the paper reveled in the party’s new tactic of throwing the dirty word “fascist” at Trump to see if it would stick (not that they didn’t do so before but now they’ve turned it up to 11).
The Times thinks the plan is working for Kamala Harris – or at least, the Times now considers it politically expedient to claim it’s working for Harris, under the headline “Harris Aides Hopeful That Casting Trump as a Fascist Could Shift Election.”
Reporters Reid J. Epstein, Lisa Lerer, and Maggie Haberman led with a lead that will sound either prescient or preposterous in a week (or more?):
As the presidential…
