Different Actions, Same Story (🇺🇸 US-UK🇬🇧 Edition)

Three political moments. Three different contexts. One underlying pattern.As American politics grows more unstable, the institutions interpreting it increasingly rely on frameworks that no longer fit the reality they are trying to explain. The result is not clarity, but normalization: contradiction presented as continuity, escalation reframed as symmetry, and fundamentally different actions treated as if they belong to the same political story.This essay examines what happens when the media’s interpretation begins to lag behind events.—DunneaginPS: Subscribe and follow the full essays and podcast at: paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged Watch short-form video commentary on YouTube Shorts: https://www.youtube.com/@civics_unhinged/shorts ☕️ Reader editions and collected volumes are available at: https://f-p-dunneagin-shop.fourthwall.com 👉 Thank you for listening and for your support. Get full access to ~ Civics Unhinged: Dispatches From Trumpistan ~ at dunneagin.substack.com/subscribe