Zurawik: ‘God Help’ Fox, I Don’t Know How They’re Going to Be ‘Punished’ in the Afterworld

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ZURAWIK: “You know, when we have Tucker Carlson going to Hungary and promoting Viktor Orban as a great leader, we've got media and we've got Trump pushing for autocracy. You know, Joe Biden was right when he said it's a struggle between autocracy and democracy right now. But, you know, we grew up with the civic books and pictures of our monuments in Washington. We think of democracy as something immutable, powerful, unshakeable. It isn't. It's an idea and an experiment, and it's frightening how far down the road, how much damage has already been done to democracy and engaged, smart people still don't seem to get that. And meanwhile, the big lie keeps going. The big lie keeps going and it's reinforced by Fox, which is — God help them, I don't know if there's an afterworld, how badly they're all going to be punished for Rupert Murdoch's money, but what they're doing, this is not a game. This is America at stake here! And it breaks my heart to see what's going on with this. And, Brian, that's our challenge. You know, you said, 'I'm not sure is this the way we should do it.' I don't have the answer either, of course, how we should do it. But I know we have to keep screaming,'Democracy is in danger, democracy is in danger!' We have to take steps to protect it."