Lead story on CNN so demoralizing "Trump is Winning the Storytelling Game" [View all]

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/05/media/donald-trump-story-telling/index.html

Stelter: President Trump is winning the story-telling game, with help from his friends in the media

Watch enough of President Donald Trump's rallies, and his power as a storyteller shines through.

He's the hero, the savior, the dragon-slayer of his own story. The villains include Democrats, foreigners and the journalists in the back of the hall.

Love him or hate him, but give credit where it's due: Trump is succeeding at telling a story.

Trump's stories are often more fiction than fact. But the thing about a story, like a novel or a drama, is that it's not really meant to be fact-checked. The narrative is meant to make you feel.


snip - read the rest if you can stomach it.

Now my feelings on this - does this sort of weird fawning article ("power of a storyteller shines through" ) help our country in any way? Hitler's power as a storyteller certainly must have been pretty impressive to accomplish the horrors that he did.

Why not "Trump's stories nothing but lies and distortions"?

I am demoralized because it is hard to know how to even counter all of this bullshit - because facts no longer matter. Decency doesn't matter. The very media that Trump's words endangers can't help but slobber at his so-called story telling skills.