There they go again.
Over there at Fox News is this telling headline:
Top 5 most heated moments as progressives spar over who is farther to the left in final Dem Senate debate
Massachusetts Democrats Ed Markey, Seth Moulton clash over progressive credentials while embracing socialism
But the front page headline on this over at The New York Times?
As this is written, that headline is nowhere. Not front page stuff - yet. Instead The Times is covering the Supreme Court decision to (finally!) allow the Trump White House ballroom construction to go forward. Then there was the headline that revealed “Foreign Gifts in Washington.” And of course, what would life be in the media without a Prince Harry and Meghan story?
But wait! The Washington Post is headlining:
Unpopular in states they’re trying to flip, Democrats criticize their own party
Democrats seeking Senate seats in some swing states are taking aim at party leadership-and even supporting Republican policies
Well now. A liberal media admission that, yes indeed, there is trouble in the home patch that is the Democrat Party. With, as The Post reports, “unpopular” Democrats in various states turning on their own party.
Why is any of this of note? For a simple, mid-term election reason. As this is written, there is a tad more than 70 days to go until the election, and the liberal media is poised to attack the Democrats who are not going along with the liberal media agenda.
As that Washington Post headline notably bannered:
Unpopular in states they’re trying to flip, Democrats criticize their own party
Which is to say, as the country’s attention turns seriously to the 2026 midterms, so too will the media get increasingly serious -- serious to the point of panic -- if there is a sense that the country is turning to supporters of President Trump and the GOP.
What the left-wing media and Democrats have going for them is that, historically speaking, when one party wins a presidential election, two years later the opposition party and its various candidates frequently enough have a serious comeback. One example from recent history was the Democrat 2018 comeback from Trump’s 2016 presidential win, with Democrats capturing the House.
But one example from history is the 1966 mid-terms. Coming two years after Democrat President Lyndon Johnson’s massive 44 state landslide win over GOP nominee (and Mr. Conservative) Senator Barry Goldwater, to the shock of Democrats and the media of the day, in 1966 the GOP won 47 House seats and 3 Senate seats. Among the winners, to the astonishment of the GOP Establishment of the day, was a conservative movie actor named, yes, Ronald Reagan. There were others in the winners circle, in retrospect signaling the GOP wave that would be forthcoming in one way or another well into the next two presidential elections. Both of which elected Nixon.
And in all of what was to come, there was the (even then!) liberal media casting a shadow on various GOP candidates across the country. (Their favorite punching bag was the increasingly strong rise -yet again - of the GOP’s 1960 losing presidential nominee, former GOP Vice President Richard Nixon.)
All of which is to say, in one form, fashion or another the liberal media of today is going to be pushing the idea of just who in this year’s field of Democrat candidates across the country is more of a socialist than another. They may call a candidate “progressive” - but want they really want is a supporter of socialism.
And not to be forgotten? While the media will be zeroing in on various Democrat candidates across the country in 2026, replete with a socialist thermometer to measure a candidate’s devotion to the socialist world view, what the media will really be focusing on is, but of course, the 2028 presidential election.
That election anxiously awaited in media circles because, to their great relief, it will - finally! - be the end of the Trump era.
So buckle in. No boring times ahead. And, in this 2026 election, there will be a serious fight over socialism.
The media will make sure of it.
