Activist journalism is a scourge to our nation. It flies in the face of the marketplace of ideas that once made our country great. Both activist journalism and the growing “critical thinking crisis” in our schools have the potential to set back our great nation decades in the name of “progressivism” or “equality.” Leftist outlets like The Atlantic (that just announced a series of 24 op-eds dedicated to “warning the public about the consequences if Trump wins a second term”) are aware of this – yet it does nothing to stop them from transcribing Biden White House talking points and crafting anti-democratic narratives.
They are political operatives, not journalists. Their practices undermine trust in the media, increase divisiveness, and weaken civic discourse. The duty of journalism is to report the truth - not manipulate public opinion to advance a partisan cause. What is absolutely baffling is that for a publication that has covered the topic of “disinformation” ad nauseum, they’ve failed to examine the current authoritarian occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Let’s look at the facts.
Joe Biden is the only United States President to ever attempt to jail his political opponents using the power of the State. He has spent the better part of three years calling his opponent’s supporters “extremists,” and “threats to Democracy.” He’s locked away Trump supporters and thrown away the key while drug dealers and murderers freely roam the streets of our Capitol. Biden wants to grow the federal government to it’s largest size ever, attempting to overhaul and invest heavily in agencies such as the IRS, that can be mobilized against his opponents.
Biden essentially owns the media, big tech, and social media, and has wielded them as weapons against conservatives for many years. From colluding with big tech to censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story, to attempting to build a briefing room for left-leaning TikTok content creators, the administration has proven there is no limit to how far the Biden apparatus will go to manipulate the facts. Additionally, having been a communications professional in Washington D.C. for the better part of a decade, I can assure you there are no such things as coincidences as far as legacy media is concerned, yet we’re supposed to believe that the Atlantic rolled out ten op-eds about an authoritarian Trump on the same day that the New York Times and Washington Post also decided to publish articles about how a second Trump administration would be “radical,” and a “dictatorship”? The State-owned and manipulated media feels awfully authoritarian to me.
Maybe the most important tell of all is that time after time the Left has been found guilty of everything they accuse Donald Trump of being or doing. They want you to believe his son is a degenerate? Well, Hunter Biden cannot stop himself from doing cocaine and buying prostitutes, all caught on film mind you. They want you to believe Trump and his family have been selling influence? Well, Joe Biden has been personally profiting off Hunter Biden’s business dealings with China and the Ukraine as House Oversight Committee subpoenas indicate. They want you to believe that Trump is the only person to ever question the results of an election? There are literally 12 minute long supercuts of Democrats doing just that all over the internet after the 2016 election.
Once again, the leftist, activist journalists at places like The Atlantic are focusing on what they deem “mean words” instead of the horrific policies the Biden regime enacted that harm millions of Americans daily. As the American Dream lies bleeding out in the gutter, they toil away extrapolating conclusions from President Trump’s every syllable, completely ignoring his actions, and empowering those that wish to carry out violent acts as we approach election season next year. The 45th President touched on this briefly during a speech in Iowa this past weekend, by calling Joe Biden the “destroyer of American democracy.” He’s right.
Kaelan Dorr is CEO of Baldur Strategies and acting chief marketing officer for Tusk Browser. Previously, he served as Head of Global Engagement at social media company GETTR. Prior to this, Dorr was Chief Marketing Officer for 45th President Donald J. Trump’s re-election campaign.