I didn't much care for that as a slogan. It doesn't really say what they do. It needs to be a call-to-action, not an identification of the problem.

I understood it as a reaction to the sheer amount of lies passed off as news that influenced the 2016 election, and has not gotten any better. But I don't think "darkness" is a good metaphor for it. The problem isn't too little information, but too much, most of it bad.

They needed something that said more clearly "We are committed to giving you the truth as best we can." I think they were hoping it was implicit, but I don't think it landed.

That said, ditching it on the eve of the inauguration is just fantastic. Following their failure to endorse in 2024, it shouts, "Yeah, we're just throwing in the towel on that whole 'truth' thing".

My advice, though: for a new slogan, find the guy who came up with "Take America Back". That's pure gold. It manages to say both "We're going to reinstate a whole lot of manifest injustices" and "The country should belong just to us, and those other guys don't deserve to live here" all at once, with just a hint of violence.

I have turned away from domestic reporting almost entirely and really just read European, Asian and Australian news. It's a mixture of distrust and burnt out on US media.

The linked article is updated now too to clarify that the premise was incorrect.

> You were fine the first 4 years you'll be fine the next 4 years.

Women have less rights now than they did before his first term. That is an observable fact. Some of them are not fine. Some of them have died do that loss. Others have had their futures stripped or their paths altered in a way in which they did not want but by an outside Authority backed by the hand of the police and judicial system that will put them in jail for doing things that they were legally allowed to just before.

Other people don't have their heads in the sand and understand exactly what the incoming administration sets out to do, as they have been quite vocal about it.

Yes, the last several presidents have also worked to weaken our democracy, but this time the effort is much more concerted among the administration, and detractors will be removed from their posts.

It's not dramatic to be concerned with the health of our democracy or to recognize clear assaults on it.

> You were fine the first 4 years you'll be fine the next 4 years.

No, we were not fine. And that was with a House, Senate, and Supreme Court actively stopping him in every way they knew how. Now he has all of those in the bag and carte blanche to do whatever he wants, and with Project 2025, all of those pesky lifetime civil servants are now blindly loyal political operatives or they are fired. Our society is going to go down in flames.

The COVID death toll that could be attributed to Trump's (in)actions is north of hundreds of thousands.

And it looks like he might get a second go at beating that high score.

> You were fine the first 4 years you'll be fine the next 4 years.

That's not a given. Donald Trump spent most of his first term on the golf course, with all of the work done by staffers. Those staffers were Bush staffers, so it's not surprising that the first Trump term felt like another Bush term in many ways.

This White House has a very different set of staffers, and will result in a very different presidency.

At least they are honest about storytelling and not journalism...

Or at a political rally.

Care to back up that extraordinary claim?