The Hacker Candidate: Trump Is a One-Man DDoS Attack on the Media
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The idea that Donald Trump is a carrier of a virus that has infected our body politic has been an enduring subtext of the current presidential election cycle.
In an August 2015 piece titled “The Trump Virus and Its Symptoms” published by the National Review, the conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley, Charles C. W. Cooke wrote about how “those who have been stricken soon come to believe in earnest that there is no such thing as a fair-minded or legitimate criticism of their swashbuckling charge, and that all embarrassments, mistakes and inadequacies are in fact signs of imminent victory.”
In June of this year, in a Huffington Post piece titled “Trump, His Virus and the Dark Age of Unreason,” Bill Moyers and Michael Winship wrote that a virus that “feeds on fear, paranoia and bigotry” has existed throughout American political history (McCarthyism was one strain) and that “today its carrier is Donald Trump.”
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