Crash Course: Nervous about November? Stop listening to pundits and start defending the president

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Stop listening to pundits and start defending the president From Brad Bauman: Despite the fact that we’ve been living in a world in which a small group of authoritarians surrounding Donald Trump continue to gaslight and attack the rest of us, there are still pundits and operatives who haven’t adapted their strategies and tactics to those realities. They view every single thing said by the abusers as something we need to consider and we need to be afraid of. These conversations end up fueling private conversations at the cocktail parties all over Washington, in which otherwise well-meaning staffers, consultants and strategists discuss and dissect these attacks to the point where they result in big portions of the progressive infrastructure seizing up, unsure of how to react and afraid that whatever they do will be the thing that will propel Trump back to the White House. 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Will it make a difference? According to the group Good Energy in partnership with Colby College’s Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, the so-called [Climate Reality Check](~/AASU4wA~/RgRn0WlHP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNDNhMmw2bjJ6ai8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTZ2c2s5bHc4YjBXA3NwY0IKZepJ5O5lDNWBkVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) performs a similar function for raising global warming awareness. For a movie to pass the Climate Reality Check, its world must include climate change and a character who knows about it. This only applies to movies set in the present or near future, on Earth and in our shared universe. So don't expect Darth Vader to suddenly start talking about global heating. So how well does Hollywood hold up to this standard? Good Energy and Schneider-Meyerson analyzed thirteen of the thirty-four feature length fictional films nominated for Oscars in 2024 through their Climate Reality Check. 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