The American corporate media virtually built their business models around the script that President Trump is a proto-dictator. Glenn Greenwald, writing in Substack, thinks this nonsense serves to distract the American public from the real menace: creeping authoritarianism infecting the media, education and overweening tech monopolies.

In Vino Veritas – Or, Whatever It Takes to Get the Truth Out of Such a Crew
Winston Churchill drank his way to saving the world from Nazism and, according to Alec Marsh in Spiked, the old bulldog would fit right in with certain current Parliamentarians enjoying a tipple to endure late-night sittings in Westminster. “Well, why not?” Marsh asks. “Politicians wouldn’t be human if they didn’t.” This news doesn’t, however, sit well with certain neo-puritan scolds from – you guessed it – the Green Party, which on the other hand does support providing free narcotics to welfare recipients.


