CBS’s John Dickerson Whines, Blames Trump and Elon for Ruining Spring

MRC Latino | March 20, 2025
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JOHN DICKERSON: The happiness report is here again. I'm not talking about the global rankings of happiness that was published today. I'm talking about spring, nature's happiness report, which also arrives today. It is the first day of spring where we are. A fact that might not be in evidence everywhere but will be soon enough. Spring is pushy. Water seeps up stalks, bulbs, crack; bird answers bird. You can't stop the march of green, the return of color. Persephone is on the front doorstoop. Words come out of storage. You can't bask in a snowstorm. But you can bask in the sun, you can sprout, you can unfurl. It is nature's station alert. We interrupt this programming for a comeback tour. The season arrives with equal generosity for all, indifferent to our human boundaries and sorrow. Egalitarian renewal that comforts, but that also accuses. Accuses those whose avarice, callousness, or even our own comfort have made parts of the world so miserable. That they deprive those who toil, those who flee and those who endure of even a moment’s peace to experience this basic thing, the birth of spring. We are lucky, those of us who can feel spring as a tonic, but not all of us are lucky, which makes spring a thorn. If is it generous, maybe we should be more generous, too. And that’s tonight’s CBS Evening News Plus. I’m John Dickerson. Good night.