I just saw Ezra Klein's video about the truly sinister implications behind Trumpmania....

[Tommy_Carcetti]

....and I suggest anyone who hasn't seen it yet to check it out as well:

And then after watching this thoughtful, well-reasoned presentation, I made the mistake of checking out the Youtube comments on the video. And, well.....wow.

My best hope is that Trump has some sort of mass troll movement like Russian state run media that makes his followers seem more prominent than they actually are, but good lord are they stupid. And good lord is that stupidity ever on display in the Youtube comment section.

I could only think of the courtroom scene from Idiocracy and the narrator's analysis of it:

"Joe stated his case logically and passionately, but his perceived effeminate voice only drew big gales of stupid laughter.
Without adequate legal representation Joe was given a stiff sentence."

[JayhawkSD]

1. Klein represents himself as a journalist.

That was not journalism. That was blatant advocacy. Not that I don't mostly agree with him, but that is not what a journalist does.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. I think what you saw was a breaking point.

Where the media has been wholly fostering Trumpmania hand and foot, mostly in the name of ratings, without any thought regarding the truly dark nature of the movement and what they are propping up.

I think Klein realized that for what it is, and how feeding this beast could turn into something truly catastrophic.

[exboyfil]

3. Aren't journalists allowed to have opinion pieces

So long as it is recognized as such.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. No, he represents himself as an 'editor-in-chief'

Here: http://www.vox.com/authors/ezra-klein

Have you heard of 'editorials'?

'Blatant' is a very loaded word to pick.