obviously this is *by far* not the only reason for (often valid!) criticism, but also, if your critique is "this framing will lead the audience (excluding me, because I'm very smart) to think X," it does seem incumbent to figure out whether or not that is actually happening

Swinging seems at first like it’d be easier than jumping but it’s not—when jumping the adrenaline hits you hard and tunes out all your anxious thoughts. Swinging doesn’t give you enough of a hit to do that so you end up witnessing the whole thing with terrified clarity.

A Russian puppet committed to empowering Putin and weakening the West would not have acted differently from Trump and Vance today. “Betrayal” does not capture the scope of the evil we saw. Our president is allying the nation with an enemy of democracy and human rights while double-crossing our ally.