Mainstream media is playing into Trump’s neo-fascist hands. I’m sticking with democracy and the Guardian | Robert Reich

I trust the Guardian to illuminate what's really happening as America faces an election in which one of the two likely candidates engaged in an attempted coup

The reason I write a column for the Guardian is the same reason I read it daily: I trust it.

Not just the facts it conveys but also its judgment about what to convey - the stories it believes worthy of reporting, and doing it in ways that illuminate what's really happening.

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His newest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com