Republicans Have A Learning Problem
Trump supporters are complaining that similar immigration actions that were essentially ignored by the press under Obama are now taking up half the nightly news broadcast under Trump. As an aside, this is only partially true -- the Trump Administration has antagonized and worsened what was previously a bad, admittedly ignored, situation. But my main reaction is this: Well, no sh*t. What about the major news outlets reporting Republican actions differently than Democratic actions surprises you in the least? Seriously, at what point do you accept this as totally expected behavior and plan around it?
If I were CEO of, say, Exxon-Mobil (XOM), and I had my PR guy come into the room after a PR debacle and tell me that the press was not being fair to oil companies, that Apple (say) did the same things, I would retort the same thing I did above: "Well, no sh*t. What planet have you been living on? The media has hated us and attempted to score points off us since 1972. That is a FACT and it is your job to help this company navigate given this FACT." I would fire the guy immediately. His complaint would merely demonstrate he was a terrible choice to do communications for us.
I don't understand why the Republican rank and file keep enabling this behavior from their party. I am not going to tell them to support different policies, though I disagree with them. But why do they keep accepting that these constant PR disasters are not the fault of their leadership, and that somehow the only way out is some sort of not-going-to-happen remaking of the media? Conservatives like to think of themselves as hard-headed realists, but good God there is sure a lot of whining going on about stuff that ain't going to change any time soon.
