Maryland Governor Wes Moore is perpetuating the dangerous and divisive lie that Baltimore Police murdered a drug dealer in their custody. But his lies can’t survive exposure to the truth.
For Ed, a cardinal sin of our era was the politicization of history, or “the reading into the past the prejudices of the present,” as he put it so eloquently.
The people who form the backbone of our country, working from sunup to sundown, caring for the land, placing food on our tables, have stories of their own. We need to tell more of them.
The mass media, in which the Fox News host was both the top dog and yet, somehow, the only real voice of opposition, has scored a victory in its quest for total narrative control.
We are going to need a well-recognized term to help us understand this threat to American freedom, to communicate with each other about it, and to help us recognize it in whatever form it takes next.