Eric Boehlert:They miss Trump so much
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They miss Trump so much
Normalizing an insurrectionist
Eric Boehlert
3 hr ago
American democracy is teetering increasingly close to the abyss as the Republican Party embraces cult-like conspiracies and races to shred the electoral process, now in the form of undemocratic ballot audits. Against that dark backdrop, the press continues to play a treacherous game by refusing to acknowledge the danger in play, and insisting that its job is to merely record Trumps game of demolition.
Even in the wake of the newest revelations of how Trump and his team aggressively tried to engineer a coup by invalidating millions of votes last year, hes still being normalized in the day-to-day coverage, as the press eagerly awaits his return to the campaign trail. (When Will Trump Answer the Big 2024 Question? the New York Times asked.)
Theres nothing Trump could do at this point that would invalidate him in the eyes of the political press, and that includes him shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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Today, the D.C. press can barely contain its excitement at the idea of the 2020 loser running again, and possibly returning to the White House. And they have signaled theyll make no changes in how they cover him. That glee stands in sharp contrast to the same press corps that told Hillary Clinton to go away after she lost in 2016.
We know news outlets miss Trump because everyone knows if he wins a second term, every minute of every White House press briefing would be carried live and in full, just as they were for his first term. For Bidens White House though, the live coverage was curtailed just weeks into the Democrats presidency.
A dangerous autocrat whos devoted to wrecking the American election process is waiting in the wings to become the GOP nominee in 2024, and the Beltway press cant wait.