How right-wing media is encouraging Trump's election denialism
Election Week has given way to two parallel Americas, one that's reality-based and one that's grievance-based.
The reality is that Joe Biden is the president-elect. The presidential transition and the pandemic should be the big stories now. As NBC's Lester Holt said when breaking into regular programming to cover Biden's remarks about the coronavirus on Monday, Biden "does not have the authority of president right now, but he does have the megaphone."
That's true, but Trump still has an even bigger megaphone. And right now he is abusing it. His presidency began with a lie about his popularity — the inauguration crowd size debacle — and now it is ending the exact same way, with lie after lie about his popularity. He and his biggest promoters in the media are in denial about the election results, or are pretending to be. And many Republican party leaders are falling in line.
Today's lies will have consequences tomorrow, because tens of millions of people are being exposed to this stuff, through websites like Breitbart and shows like "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Fox News.
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