Election 2020 is Ireland’s Trump moment

Nobody saw Trump coming; nobody saw Brexit coming; nobody saw Sinn Féin coming. Shell-shocked media like headless chickens don’t know what happened or what to do or where to go.

Election 2020 is Ireland’s Trump moment
Thu, 13 Feb, 2020 - 00:00

Nobody saw Trump coming; nobody saw Brexit coming; nobody saw Sinn Féin coming. Shell-shocked media like headless chickens don’t know what happened or what to do or where to go.

It was the media’s duty to look at the real underlying causes of economic upheaval but they failed miserably. Bland discussion with gravely mistaken usual “experts” who never understood what happened in 2008 and are still in denial was the media’s entire agenda.

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