Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Laura Santhanam — New poll: Majority of Americans unhappy with Trump’s response to Charlottesville

A majority of Americans are dissatisfied with President Donald Trump’s response to the violence that erupted last Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to a new poll conducted by the PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist Poll....
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New poll: Majority of Americans unhappy with Trump’s response to Charlottesville
Laura Santhanam

2 comments:

Dan Lynch said...

There is no such thing as the “alt-left,” the New York Times reported

Yet Clinton Democrats frequently referred to an "alt-left."

Tom Hickey said...

Alt Left = Progressives

Alt Right = White Nationalists

Alt Right and Alt Left are terms coined by the Alt Right as memes that avoid associations that they don't wish to make publicly (white nationalists, neo-Nazis) and to create a false equivalence between the "far right and far left." The purpose of such memes is to normalize the abnormal in public discourse. The media is going along with this, to some degree witlessly. But professional journalists should know better and not be taken in by crude persuasion techniques and propaganda.