Video deleted by White House breaks through numbness barrier and raises further questions about fitness for office
It is a singular if highly dubious distinction of Donald Trump’s pungent contribution to the political discourse to have essentially bankrupted the English language’s capacity for outrage.
So unremitting and extreme have been the avalanche of affronts since Trump descended the golden escalator in Trump Tower in 2015 to declare his presidential candidacy that even his most ardent critics have become desensitized, leading to a level of shock fatigue.
Yet Trump’s highly racist and offensive late-night Truth Social post depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes broke through the numbness barrier to register on the political Richter scale at a level few of his many previous insults ever achieved.
There are a lot of thing done by people in charge that made it possible.
deregulation of media in US (see Telecommunication act of 1996)
constant cuts to education because uneducated people are easier to fool
mainstream media houses owned by rich people or large corporations
dividing the population so they vote against each other instead of for public good (republicans vs democrats, “immigrants are stealing your jobs”, nazis vs jews, “Unions are stealing your wages”, etc)
More modern examples are Must buying Tiktok to get more misonformation there and Trump ordering buying of Tiktok “to protect children” and thus censoring all epstein speak there.