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The press as it operates in its quaint,
constitutional role as the checker and balancer of non-democratic rule is
outdated and to be dismissed as such.
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Corollary to above point: Social media now acts as press.
The presidency, in its voices on social media, heralds news as disrupter of responsible
journalism, which no longer holds sway, is an artifact of the pre-personal
technology era.
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Tech disrupters like Jeff Bezos of Amazon blur political lines
(no universal health care, but health care for benighted employees), co-opts a crucial part of what’s left of
responsible journalism by going out and buying the Washington Post company.
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Democrats, who choose to make
common cause with
the tech disrupters, mark an earlier state in the postmodern presidency. Call
it the tech-big government-deep state complex.
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The current president does that one better: he takes
up his own giant space on Twitter as presidential disrupter to promote mob
rule; one fact is right, all others evil and corrupt.
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Control philosophy rooted in the thinking and Leviathan
practices of one Roy Cohn, one-time mentor to the current president.
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