I’m sure some or most on the right will dismiss Rachel Maddow as a demonstrative, bombastic pariah, accusing her of over-reacting, for example, to the firestorm currently (always) engulfing Donald Trump, or the seemingly inevitable passage in Georgia of legislation that will conveniently give power to Republican lawmakers to dismiss prosecutors they don’t like. Think about that!
Anyway, I prefer to think of her as a needed alternative, as someone with a show on MSNBC who doesn’t see herself or speak as one who occupies the opposite end of the spectrum from Tucker Carlson and the rest at Fox News. Fox News. That’s funny. I see her as the steady voice in the midst of the maelstrom, calling us to take a closer look, to step back from the edge of looniness and the influence of domestic and foreign actors who are lying to us and simply trying to manipulate us.
She’s the one who sees through all that, or at least tries to navigate within it, and succeeds, most weeks, at offering a clear-eyed perspective. Which might sound like its own form of discipleship or hero worship, but it’s the choice I have made. What she says, most nights, makes sense to me, sounds rational, thoughtful, and well-researched.
An antidote to the paranoia and racism and small-minded blather that passes for platform for the likes of Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan, Rand Paul and MTG and the rest.
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