Gaslighter -- Mika blames Hillary for not warning us about Trump [View all]

[CatWoman]

Astonished by a president who has deliberately made every wrong move when faced with a crippling pandemic, and who refuses to change course as the carnage mounts, media players continue to express shock at Trump's behavior. Insisting it was impossible to tell in 2016 that Trump's irrational and erratic behavior would create so much death and destruction, the preferred talking point for many is that nobody could've have predicted Trump's presidency would be this horrific.

It’s extraordinary for media professionals who covered the 2016 campaign to now express wonderment at the predictably tragic consequences of Trump's victory. But the denial remains firm. On Friday, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski went one step further. Not only did she insist Trump's monstrous, psychopathic behavior was unknowable, she specifically called out Hillary Clinton for failing to warn us in 2016.

"We have learned he has no balance, that he was way worse than anybody thought he would ever be," Brzezinski said, referring to Trump's corruption and lawbreaking. "We never though that we'd be seeing this. Nobody did. And it's not just us. It's Hillary Clinton, who went to parties with him."

This is the definition of gaslighting — the purposeful erasing of history. In this case, it's Brzezinski trying to erase the central role she played in that history. Insisting Clinton didn't know about Trump’s dangerous ways or warn us four years ago is categorically false. (She called him "dangerously incoherent.&quot The reason Brzezinski might have missed Clinton's warnings was because she was relentlessly bashing Clinton during the campaign, while propping up Trump's run.

The fact remains that the press was central to Trump's victory, as they often treated him like a celebrity and ceaselessly attacked his opponent — a stunning media double standard. Yet to this day, most major players have refused to acknowledge their role in creating the careening Trump presidency. And some like Brzezinski want to disappear their role, while blaming Clinton in the process.

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