A responsible press can choose how — or how not — to cover reckless and divisive candidates screaming for attention.
It would be better to simply defeat authoritarian candidates at the ballot box. Yet history shows this does not always work. has declined during recent election cycles. The “clown car,” as one consultant puts it, attracts angry candidates with little experience in public office. Many political scientists believe that a The Republican establishment has already accepted that it cannot ignore authoritarian voters.
To be sure, many of us know people with authoritarian dispositions, and they are not wantonly threatening us with imprisonment. Authoritarians value obedience to authority. As parents they want children to show respect. Ordinary expressions of authoritarianism bring to mindWhen Bay Area officials offered remote viewing options beginning in 2020, city council proceedings in San Jose and Walnut Creek were with racial slurs.
Michael McDevitt is a professor of journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder and a former reporter and editorial writer for Bay Area newspapers, including the Peninsula Times Tribune and the Oakland Tribune.Asking Eric: Late night TV brought unwanted drama to our vacationHarriette Cole: We urged our daughter to tough it out and were horrified by what happenedCheryl Hines finally considering divorce over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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