While The Flash is likely best when the politics of the day don’t rear their ugly head, it’s certainly an area that could have used more fleshing out.
As quipped above, it’s a very rich metaphor for a character’s superpower to be fake news that literally becomes reality. While all this family drama is coming out, the gang learns that Spin is manipulating people to create high-profile news stories (also known as tragedies) so that she can be first on the reporting. That is to say, it’s understandable and you and I might very well do the same. Nora may be a flawed character in many ways, but her decision to come back in time suddenly feels less like a selfish speedster’s abuse of power and more like a lottery winner going a bit overboard on a new sports car. She only learned she was a metahuman less than a year ago, so we can’t fault her too much for not understanding the intricacies of time-travel and the multiverse. Suddenly Nora’s reckless disregard for the sanctity of the timeline is more understandable.
However, it’s also the moment when Nora reveals that the reason she seems so bratty toward her mom has nothing to do with her dad’s disappearance, it’s the fact that she discovered Iris had planted a power dampener on her and didn’t allow her to know that she was a speedster until six months prior. Further reading – The Flash Season 5: Who is Spin?
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