I am realizing what irked me about this BB headline.
Trump isn’t embracing reproductive rights.
He is pretending to embrace reproductive rights.
This headline is falling into the same trap as most media do:
- Treating his “normal” sounding words as those of a sincere person who feels bound by what they say.
- Treating the times when the quiet part is said out loud, when he goes beyond the pale of what has been acceptable political rhetoric, as a joke or otherwise unserious.
This way the media end up painting a picture of Trump that is 180 degrees from reality. His “normal” statements are when he is being disingenuous, and his “wtf” statements are the true man.
BB really dropped the ball here. The title should have been “Evangelicals silent as Trump claims to support reproductive rights, despite abundant evidence to the contrary.”
Of course that may not have gotten the clicks because it would have explained right in the title why they are largely silent.
