Journalists in America have earned a reputation for amplifying Democratic talking points, ramping up partisan hysteria, and demanding ever more radical responses from the left. Rarely do NBC and its media friends tell Democrats to cool down. Instead, they’re the ones egging them on, insisting that Trump’s policies spell doom for America’s institutions. This trend hasn’t slowed down, even after voters rejected those scare tactics in the 2024 election and gave President Donald Trump a second term.
On NBC’s Meet the Press, the Democratic Party found an anxious cheerleader in Kimberly Atkins Stohr, an opinion writer for the far-left Boston Globe. She seized on momentary economic concerns over tariffs as yet another vehicle to peddle dire warnings about “tyranny.” During a discussion on economic policy, Atkins Stohr didn’t hesitate to pump up the panic.
Moderator Kristen Welker asked, “Yeah, well, and of course the Fed chair did say he believes these tariffs could ultimately raise inflation. Kimberly, do you think Democrats, they have an opening here, but are they using it effectively?”
Atkins Stohr responded: “I wish more Democrats in a united way would speak the way that Senator Booker did. You have a lot of Democrats — and I understand the desire to talk about policy and to talk about strategy. None of that is happening here. We are seeing, just during the course of this show, things are changing minute by minute as to what is going on. This isn’t a strategy. And it is so dangerous. I mean, I believe Ray Dalio when he says that we could be heading toward a depression. And I know Democrats get a lot of heat from Republicans about being too alarmist, and talk about democracy being in peril too much. If we are in a position like we were in the 1930s, do you think talking about that too much is a problem? A collapsed economy is an open door to autocracy, and that is what Democrats should be shouting from the mountaintops.”
Welker replied, “Yeah, he said it could be worse than a recession.”
This isn’t sober analysis. This is hysteria, pure and simple—something the liberal media specializes in. The narrative couldn’t be clearer: blow things wildly out of proportion, pin every negative on Trump, and terrify the public about fascism and autocracy supposedly lurking around every corner. The Boston Globe’s Atkins Stohr, still reeling from Trump’s re-election, had already shown her desire to write President Trump out of politics. On PBS NewsHour just last September, she fantasized about Republicans joining forces with Kamala Harris: “If they don’t like what Trump stands for and what he wants, there’s a way in this election to do something different and try to eliminate him from the political arena entirely.”
This is nothing but desperate flailing from a media establishment that can’t accept it lost. Their coverage is openly manipulative. Take Geoff Bennett, for instance, who, with Atkins Stohr’s approval, tried to draw tired false equivalence by harping on Trump’s supposed “gaffes.” She chimed in: “If the Democratic Party had a family talk about the cognitive abilities of Joe Biden, then it’s a long past time that the Republican Party confront the same thing about Donald Trump, because something’s going on there.” All while giving Kamala Harris a free pass, gushing, “Kamala [was] speaking in complete sentences and paragraphs about her vision for the American future.” The Democratic gaffe machine apparently is invisible to the leftist media.
The hypocrisy goes deeper. On July 5, just weeks before Biden was shown the exit, Atkins Stohr was on PBS parroting the DNC talking points that voters already had their say and that no back-room deal should replace the candidate. She argued, “We are past the primaries. The voters have already had their say. It would have to be the nominee to make that decision. And it seems that he has. So now Democrats really don’t have a choice. Mark Warner, donors, other people don’t pick the Democratic nominee for president. The people and the process do. And they have already done that.
So I think, at this point, I agree that this is a crucial moment in time and that the threat of democracy that looms with a potential return to the White House of Donald Trump is something that cannot be ignored. I think, the more Democrats continue to fight and quibble and play this game about replacing the president, when there’s no — not even an heir apparent, the weaker they are.”
Kimberly Atkins Stohr, of @BostonGlobe: “I wish more Democrats, in a united way, would speak the way Senator Booker did….If we are in the position like we were in the 1930s, do you think talking about that too much is a problem? A collapsed economy is an open door to autocracy… pic.twitter.com/CmVNbFtber
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) April 13, 2025
The mainstream media’s screaming about threats to democracy is the ultimate irony, especially when President Trump’s victory in a fair election is the very definition of democracy. While Donald Trump delivers strong economic leadership and defends everyday Americans from globalist overreach, the media’s answer is always the same: shriek “autocracy,” insult the intelligence of the voters, and double down on panic. Americans have seen right through it—which is why Trump is President today.