How did we get to the point that it’s good news for Donald Trump, according to The New York Times, when a *majority* of Americans think he has committed serious crimes?
Jamison Foser can tell you. He writes the Finding Gravity newsletter and he's also a strategist who co-created Media Matters. And he now advises Take Back the Court.
America’s right wing is so good at creating and spreading myths that many liberals have bought into two big ones.
The first is that we have a liberal media. And not just at MSNBC’s weeknight lineup. There’s a belief that everything from The New York Times to Disney to Taylor Swift to Bud Light’s ad agency has a left-leaning agenda. Not that these entities are following their own intentions or market forces but that there is a left-leaning gravity that cannot be defied. Because woke or something.
The second myth is that running against the Supreme Court only works for Republicans. Democrats have long believed that actively running to overturn Citizens United or the gutting of the Voting Acts Act or Dobbs by making the Supreme Court reflective of American voters could never work out for them. Even though it's pretty much the only thing that works for the Republican party, who've recognized that an activated base is the secret to winning close elections, almost everywhere.
When myths are so strong, you can only call them one thing — frauds. And almost no one is better at calling out frauds than Jamison Foser.
If you follow him at all, you probably know there's one media company that particularly upsets Jamison. So we started there.