In the days leading up to the announcement that a New York County grand jury had voted to indict former President Donald Trump, the anticipation was almost unbearable for the left. They had waited with frustration at the failure of the legal and administrative state establishment, which their side controls, to find a way to jail the bad orange man they hate so much. So, it was understandable that The New York Times — the flagship of corporate media — would seek to rationalize the bizarre legal theory that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is using to indict Trump.
In doing so, the paper also managed to provide an object lesson in how the Democrats’ press cheerleaders employ a view of modern American history that employs the Stalinist tactics immortalized in our literary canon by George Orwell’s “1984.” In one breathtakingly dishonest article, the Times’ political correspondent Jonathan Weisman — who has made no secret of his left-wing views but was demoted in 2019 for tweets deemed insufficiently woke — revived “October surprise” myths about Republicans stealing elections in 2016, 1980, and even 1968, while at the same time consigning down the Orwellian “memory hole” the efforts of Democrats and their media and Big Tech enablers to crookedly distort the results of the 2020 election.
The conceit of the unironically titled “Donald Trump, and the Sordid Tradition of Suppressing October Surprises” is that the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels is worthy of prosecution. It claims that
