Our shared concept of truth is being held together by hatred of Comcast

Truth is in trouble. Fake news. State disinformation campaigns. Facebook bubbles. But even as our deeply polarized electorate sets fire to The Enlightenment, there’s one shred of common belief that unites the right and left-wings of the world: the idea that Comcast is Bad. It’s downright patriotic.

Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who spent years making the case that President Obama was an existential threat to America, has found an even bigger threat: Comcast. After missing a service appointment today, Huckabee responded proportionally by comparing Comcast to the mafia, cold molasses, root canals, United Airlines, and North Korea.

Huckabee’s tweetstorm is a setback for Comcast, which announced in 2015 that it planned to stop being the worst company in America.

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