J.D. Vance asking Martha Raddatz, ‘Do you hear yourself?’ was the political reality check I desperately needed.
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The way Donald Trump and J.D. Vance talked to the media on the campaign trail was one of the reasons a lot of people eventually turned away from the Democrats and into the arms of MAGA. I am one of them.
About 10 years ago, I started noticing the ever-expanding delta between what I saw with my own two eyes as reality and what the media presented. There is a 2016 standup bit by Dave Chappelle that captured this chasm beautifully. In it, Chappelle recalls the first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton in which Trump said, “The whole system is rigged!” and everybody on the stage who was a beneficiary of the system calmly responded, “No, it’s not,” yet Chappelle thought: “Now wait a minute, it’s what HE said!”
