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She wants help with “access to medication and pushing in some ways the hand of our employers, or normalizing, ‘This is just health care.’”

The cowardice of the press to compare Trump to fascist leaders of yesteryear has helped to normalize his words and deeds.

By normalizing Trump as a candidate, the media became the biggest villain in this entire era.

The reckoning that needed to happen by the media in its normalizing of this man will now be replaced by the effort to hang on for dear life as the retribution begins.

But it’s a simple story for a conman to tell, and the media’s willingness to normalize it radically shifted political discourse in Trump’s favor.