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🧵 #THREAD

Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote a column we wish all the members of the media had to read word-for-word, out loud, before they could log on to their computer systems.

Since that seems unlikely, we're giving you a multi-post thread that reproduces the column in its entirety.

Why? Because #Democracy is worth protecting.

#Expats: This column has been brought to you by VoteFromAbroad.org. Please #boost it widely.

@journalismandcomment @history #law #tiktok

DO NEWSPAPER COLUMNISTS KNOW THAT #DEMOCRACY'S CLOSER TO DEATH THAN #BIDEN?

Will Bunch

One of the first things they teach doctors in medical school is the imperfect but necessary art of triage, the technique used on a battlefield or during some other mass-casualty event to determine who is most gravely wounded and who needs immediate attention during a crisis when the system is overwhelmed, and clear-headed thinking will save lives.

🧵 1/19

Clearly, this is not something that is taught in journalism school.

Over the course of a remarkable weekend, I saw the best minds of my boomer generation destroyed by madness — newspaper columnists and other big shots convinced they were cosplayers in a real-world episode of The #WestWing...

🧵 2/19

...saving #America by giving chief of staff Leo McGarry the best words to convince an ailing #President Bartlet that it’s time to step down.

The soft clacking of these keyboard commandos turned into a stampede as the nation’s pundits, its editorial-page poobahs, mega-rich but anonymous donors, & Democratic horse whisperers competed to outdo each other on The Daily Rip or in “the paper of record,” or wherever they thought the actual frail president, Joe #Biden, might be paying attention.

🧵 3/19

Dropping names — #Whitmer! #Shapiro! #Warnock! — like a groupie backstage at a heavy-metal concert, floating wildly implausible scenarios, stretching so hard for historical analogies that several probably blew out a hamstring, America’s pundit class managed to achieve a level of groupthink that surpassed the brainwashers of The Manchurian Candidate.

🧵 4/19

All argued that for the good of the country he loves, #Biden — hoarse, barely audible, and visibly confused a few times during Thursday’s Atlanta presidential debate — must immediately end his candidacy.

Meanwhile, in the actual America that less resembles The #WestWing than the disaster flick #DontLookUp, two comets simultaneously bore down on America in the hours leading up to its 248th — and possibly last — birthday as a democratic republic.

🧵 5/19

First, there is #TFG — desperate to avoid his sentencing for his 34 felony convictions, firing off #racist insults about “#Black jobs” and “bad #Palestinians,” and carrying around a 900-page blueprint for #American #dictatorship called #Project2025 — streaking into the cosmic void of our troubled republic.

Meanwhile, #dontlookup but a thoroughly corrupt and compromised #SupremeCourt is blazing a second trail toward #American #autocracy.

🧵 6/19

@forteller synonym for He Whose Name We Choose Not to Amplify on Social Media (aka The Former Guy)