_WHAT’S HAPPENING_
CNN host Jake Tapper, long seen as a defender of the Democratic establishment, is now publicly questioning the party, supposedly sickened by the discoveries made in the new book, Original Sin, that he co-authored with Axios reporter Alex Thompson.
While promoting the book, which details the Biden administration’s concealment of the president’s cognitive decline, Tapper has not only criticized the Democratic Party and its leadership, but has attacked the cultural attitudes of the Left, including their hostility toward traditional masculinity and law enforcement.
_THE FACTS_
On Piers Morgan's show, Tapper called the Biden cover-up "a scandal" that "may be even worse than Watergate in some ways."
During an interview with Megyn Kelly, Tapper admitted conservative media "was right" about Biden's condition.
Tapper revealed he “didn’t vote for Biden or Trump” and that he “can’t stand either party.”
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, a lifelong Democrat, criticized Tapper and Thompson’s decision to wait to publish the revelations until after the election, asking, "Don't news people have to tell you what they know when they find it out?"
Stewart also mocked the idea that there was a cover-up, saying, "It was terrible because we all f***ing knew."
During an appearance on a progressive podcast, the host joked about Tapper's 15-year-old son being racist for wanting to be a police officer.
Tapper later complained about the comment, asserting, "This is why you f***ers are losing elections."
On the same podcast, Tapper argued that terms like “toxic masculinity” are used against young men who have “worlds” that don’t revolve around politics.
_INSIGHTS_
Jake Tapper’s remarks about the Left’s disdain for traditional masculinity and frustration with their cultural arrogance may suggest more than just running damage control, but a real disgust with the Democratic Party.
However, by focusing solely on the Biden White House’s attempts to hide the president’s decline, as opposed to spotlighting those in the media who helped cover it up, Tapper is keeping the focus on the past so he does not have to take on the complicit media apparatus that constantly defends Democrats.
The entire mainstream media ecosystem is the real white whale, yet it eludes Tapper. Democratic Party leadership is simply the tip of the iceberg.
