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Offering a glimpse into what the election year is set to bring is NBC News‘ smearing of Tulsi Gabbard. Thoroughly debunked by the Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald, NBC News‘ hit piece is only the latest in line of attacks launched at the Hawaii representative.
It is quite telling that NBC News chose to rely on the so-called Russiagate narrative to smear Gabbard. Associating those who dare depart from foreign policy interventionism and other orthodoxies of official Washington with the Kremlin has become the weapon of choice for media propagandists.
By the supposed left, Gabbard is being criticized from the right.
Indeed, such positions can only be challenged from the right, which is indicative of where the Democratic Party stands and where it is rapidly moving: further to the right, as its constituency moves to the left. Meant to fill the ideological gap, the vacuum between the party and its voters, is the ever-expanding Russia narrative.
On Sanders...
Guaranteed to continue, these McCarthyite smears will be aimed at the left and used indiscriminately.
Already reverberating across social and conventional media are McCarthyite smears aimed at Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Sanders’ significant and principled disagreements with Washington orthodoxies are, unsurprisingly, painted and interpreted almost exclusively as proof that he has a role to play in the broad and elaborate Kremlin plot to subvert democracy in the United States.
As the election approaches, these attacks will accelerate and intensify: virtually all polls have shown that the Vermont Senator is among the most popular politicians in the United States. Inasmuch as this makes Sanders a threat to the Democratic Party establishment, it makes him a target.
Crossposted from the other sub. Must-read imo.