Morning Joe and the perils of 'normalizing' the president

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Last week, Biden invited Trump to the White House, where the two men shook hands and spoke of a peaceful transition of power.
52% : But sometimes the media, like Morning Joe, has desired access or behaved as something other than organs of opposition to Trump.
42% : "Combating misinformation, whether through starting new media ventures or regulating old ones, is the preferred solution of Gay's ilk to the political problems posed by Trump and his supporters.
42% : This may misjudge the efficacy of a decade of negative media coverage of Trump, which has nevertheless coincided with him being the dominant political figure of this era.
41% : Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were almost apologetic when explaining to viewers that they had spoken to Trump for the first time in seven years.
39% : White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spoke of trying to be "respectful to the American people," who elected Trump.
33% : Scarborough had been friendly with Trump before he and Brzezinski became sharp critics.
23% : The effort to read Trump out of the mainstream and shame his voters clearly failed.
22% : Harris has conceded the presidential race to Trump.
20% : Journalism professor and media critic Jeff Jarvis called the chat with Trump a "betrayal of their colleagues, democracy, and us all.
14% : "Morning Joe has had a complicated relationship with Trump, dating back to his frequent calls into the program in 2015, as he began his first presidential campaign, followed by a nasty break with its hosts.
10% : So did Vice President Kamala Harris's closing argument that Trump augured the arrival of fascism, following years of President Joe Biden's warnings that he was a threat to democracy.

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