Vox: Have we stopped to appreciate how crazy Donald Trump has gotten recently?

[TomCADem]

Ezra Klein makes a point about how the media has taken to normalizing the craziness that Donald Trump spouts.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/have-we-stopped-to-appreciate-how-crazy-donald-trump-has-gotten-recently/ar-BBuXpnL

Last Thursday, Donald Trump gave a pretty normal convention speech. It was darker, grimmer, and more pessimistic than most, but it was free of Trump’s odder tics — he stayed on teleprompter, he bit back his riffs, he didn’t try to settle old scores or freelance on major policies. Perhaps this was the pivot. Perhaps Trump would settle down now that the nomination was his.

Nope.

The very next day Trump walked out and gave one of the craziest, most self-destructive press conferences in political history. He was off-script. He was unhinged, he was settling scores.

"I don’t want [Ted Cruz’s] endorsement," he said, for absolutely no reason. "If he gives it, I will not accept it. Just so you understand. I will not accept it. It won’t matter. Honestly, he should have done it because nobody cares and he would have been in better shape for four years from now if he’s gonna — I don’t see him winning anyway, frankly."

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

1. This scares the hell out of me. The complicity of the M$M will put #TraitorTrump in the White House.

[TomCADem]

2. The Media Gives Trump The Benefit of the Doubt. "He Doesn't Really Mean That"

In other words, Trump says crazy stuff, but a lot of people assume/hope that he does not really mean what he is saying. Think about it. With Trump. We HOPE he is bullshitting us. We pray that he does not mean what he is saying.

Conversely, with Hillary, when she often says something sane that we agree with, the discussion is not about the merits, but whether she really means it.

Yet, Trump is the one who is praised for telling it like it is and Hillary is the one with the trust issues. That is the narrative.