Andrew Cuomo and the Lincoln Project were media-created debacles. What now? | David Sirota and Andrew Perez

The details of the two tales vary, but the narrative arcs are eerily similar

In the chaos of 2020, the national press corps used all of its magical myth-making and storytelling powers to conjure two towering political heroes for a country in crisis. From the maw of the media machine, the New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, and the Lincoln Project emerged as our alleged sentinels bravely battling a deadly pandemic and an authoritarian president - and supposedly leading us with principles and morality into a new era of accountability and integrity.

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