Polarized
Don’t give up.
December 21, 2019
‘America is not broken. Across the country, in red states and blue states, before the public and even behind bars, ALL of us are trying to figure things out. And many of us are doing it with patience, candor, empathy, intensity and a hunger for solutions.’ ღ
~Joshua Johnson, Studio 1A
Partisan & Destructive
December 9, 2019
NYTIMES
Paul J. McNulty, Deputy Attorney General during the George W. Bush administration & the chief counsel and spokesman for the committee Republicans, and now a college president, said the fight over impeachment had gone from “partisan but constructive” in 1998 to “partisan and destructive” now.
“That dynamic had the potential to damage the nation’s politics for years, and could permanently alter the intent of the authors of the Constitution.”“My hope would be, as a citizen, that when this is over, somehow, some way, we could stop and think about what impeachment was meant to be for.”
“In a deeply polarized nation where party rules above all else, a process enshrined in the Constitution as the most consequential way to address a president’s wrongdoing has devolved into another raucous partisan brawl.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/us/politics/impeachment-partisan-democrats-republicans.html
[Jay Rosen, press critic, writer, and professor of journalism]
People are asking me what I thought of this. I read it as a confession: We’re out of ideas. “Both sides” and “so divided” is all we got.
Jay Rosen is a media critic, writer, and a professor of journalism at New York University.
Rosen is a contributor to De Correspondent and a member of the George Foster Peabody Awards board of directors.
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