The Associated Press -- like essentially every other major journalism outlet -- has totally normalized extremism.
Calling the new house speaker a "staunch conservative" -- a pathetically weak euphemism for far-right extremist -- is only the latest example of Big Journalism's collapse into willful helplessness.
It's journalistic cowardice in the face of a movement that aims to bring down democracy, and by extension journalism.
@dangillmor how about, "Mike Johnson, who supported an attempted coup to overturn the 2020 Presidential election,"
@lauerhahn @dangillmor A coup... what did he do along those lines?
Assuming we all agree there's a distinction between "filing lawsuits about what you think are procedural violations" (like what Gore did in 2000) and "attempting a coup" (like what Ferdinand Marcos did in 1972)....
Did Johnson support more the former, or more the latter? (If it's the latter, sorry I missed it in what I've read, I'd love a pointer.)
@ech @lauerhahn @dangillmor
"Filling lawsuits" would be one way of engaging in a Constitutional Coup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_coup