This is behavior modification in action, even as it’s a bit of a crawl-down from inflammatory rhetoric blaming a segment of the population for something that it turns out never happened.
BUT DON’T YOU FORGET IT COULD
CNN tries to work both ends against the middle here, as it is obligated to report that the Colorado Supreme Court justices – the ones who summarily bumped the Trump off the ballot there – had been “threatened” and that the FBI was investigating. You can read it pretty clearly in the chyron under the anchor.
The inference, of course, being that the jurists themselves had received a barrage of frightening and dangerous threats. If you glanced over this NBC News piece five days ago, you would have figured phone lines, emails, offices, etc, were on fire from enraged and insane Trump followers threatening all sorts of death and…
