The room at George Washington University was packed with journalists and students as White House press secretary Sarah Sanders walked centre stage. From their perspective, Sanders is an apologist for the dangerous demagogue and white supremacist who occupies the White House. But her adept performance underlined how, with greater subtlety than her hapless predecessor Sean Spicer, Sanders has effectively become Trump’s normaliser-in-chief. Since Sarah took over, not one person in the White House press shop has peddled me a single poisonous story about Sarah; that was not true under Sean. This is why her placid gaze is so disturbing: It is the face of a White House whose deceptions and outrages have become all too normal.”

Source: The Guardian October 30, 2017 04:52 UTC