You can only tilt at the same windmills for so long (caravan, lgbtq, AOC). The grifters have to keep the content fresh to keep the Trump fans of the world entertained and enraged.
Owens definitely does. She's almost made it an art form.
I've almost come to respect Owens for her grift. She ran like hell towards the right of the political spectrum and got showered in fame and money by the right. I don't think she's a true believer but she pulls it off really well.
Don't forget India on the list of countries trending to nationalism. Here's a good podcast covering the rise of nationalism in India by NPR.
I think it stems back to the economic meltdown in 2008. The last rise of nationalism was in the aftermath of the great depression.
Plus it's cool again to hate anything the reactionaries deem the "other." Easier to blame something external than to address internal problems.
You're using a terrible article source. The NYT is barring their journalists from appearing on opinion shows. That includes Maddow, Hannity, but yet if they NYT deems the show to be centrist then it's ok.
Also lol at this part:
Retweeting screenshots is not ok, including them on your show is fine actually.
The article that set off Laura: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/media/laura-ingraham-paul-nehlen-extremists/index.html
This may be a tired point, but I'm exhausted of this onus solely being placed on the Dems when we know they can't impeach. They can only begin the process and then watch the GOP continue to be the GOP.
The double standard in the country between the two parties is insane.
Guns as a topic really bring out the nihilist in me. You can visit gun forums and some of the gun related subreddits, and a lot of them dislike the NRA for being too soft. I don't see the needle moving anytime soon.
I still remember this story immediately after Parkland where the surviving kids were getting help, through twitter, from other school shooting survivors around the country. It was such a surreal moment. A lot of these kids, their families, and even the larger community as a whole never really recover from the trauma.