Losing the Plot?

'Is Trump losing the plot?' seems currently to be the question on the lips of many US political commentators.  Well, have I got news for you guys - we're way past the point of asking that question.  It's been patently obvious to any sane and rational person that the Orange Shitler is completely off his trolley since the day he took office in January.  Lat's face it, he was patently insane during his first term, but the US media seemed incapable of communicating this truth.  Until now, that is.  Finally, they are starting to dare to whisper that he might be, well, exhibiting symptoms of senility.  Again, not shit.  Their problem is that they've spent so long attempting to normalise his behaviour, even during his first term, that it has become increasingly difficult for the media to acknowledge that they were wrong and by covering up for the Mango Mussolini, they have done the US electorate a severe disservice.  But why have they previously been so keen to try and characterise the Trump administration as being somehow 'normal'?  Perhaps it is because so much of the US media is owned by billionaires who, even if they aren't publically conservative-leaning, see Trump as an ally in their attempts to subvert those democratic processes they see as harmful to their own interests.  Maybe it is simply fear - fear that if they don't curry favour with the fat bastard then he'll use the full force of the state to intimidate them.  In either case, they are neglecting their duty to speak truth to power, the main function of any media in a democracy.

But it isn't just the US where we see this happening - just look at the way in which the British press are going out of their way to normalise not just Nigel Farage but, increasingly, also the mortgage fraudster and convicted thug turned 'citizen journalist' and extremist rabble rouser 'Tommy Robinson'.  Despite the fact that, to be frank, the kind of views they are known for espousing are basically fascist, they are now presented to us a legitimate political players.  It's not just the usual suspects, the right-wing millionaire owned print press, who are culpable here:  the BBC's current chief political correspondent Chris Mason, for instance, seems to have a major league crush on Farage, praising him and giving Reform UK an easy ride whilst simultaneously launching assault after assault, often on the thinnest of evidence, at the government.  I'm not saying that the government shouldn't be held to account, it most certainly should, but I'd expect the BBC's overall political coverage to be just a little more balanced and consistent in its tone with regard to the different political parties.  I mean, it isn't as if we don't already have right-wing TV news channels that give regular platforms to the likes of Farage, so we surely don't need our national, publicly funded, broadcaster to jump on that bandwagon as well, do we?   But if they don't we'll have the various Farage mouthpieces, like the Telegraph, bellowing that they are all a bunch of lefties and should be shut down.  Are we getting to the stage, I wonder, when we have to storm the offices of these rags, waving flaming torches and shouting 'Kill the monster'?