The 2024 campaign was an embarrassment for elite media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The 25-minute exchange better resembled T-ball, with such participation trophy set-ups as "Can we trust you?" and "[Trump] said he will be the protector of women if elected.
58% : Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts appeared at a Carlson live event within days; Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance joined Carlson three weeks later, and Donald Trump campaigned with the broadcaster multiple times during the final two weeks of the race.
57% : As in so many other things, Trump changed all that.
53% : The new generation of journalists entering the work force during the age of Trump has been at the vanguard of some of the profession's most head-snapping changes: an increase in unionization after decades of decline; the creation of departments dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion; out-loud opposition both to "platforming" people with unacceptable views and to "bothsidesism," which can mean the consideration of multiple perspectives on a contested issue that journalists consider settled or just critical coverage of a given Democrat when everyone knows the applicable Republican is worse.
51% : As the nation itself was sorting geographically by politics, and retreating at measurable rates from community institutions such as church, Little League, and social clubs, journalism was refocusing on national and especially presidential politics, from the vantage point of the bluest neighborhoods in the bluest cities.
49% : Trump and Vance traveled happily to Austin for the full Joe Rogan experience; Harris, after failing to convince Rogan to come to her for a shorter interview, declined.
41% : In summer 2020, after Minneapolis police officers killed an arrest-resisting George Floyd, the knowledge economy erupted into dozens of managerial defenestrations over insufficiently demonstrative support for combating institutional racism.
39% : There are some things you might not know her answer to, [but] in 2024, unlike 2016, for a lot of the American people, we know exactly what Trump will do, who he is, and the kind of threat he is to democracy.
38% : Not only did the activist disclaim any interest in scrutinizing Donald Trump or J.D. Vance for plagiarism, but he offered in September a $5,000 bounty for any evidence proving that one of the GOP ticket's wildest claims was true: "that Haitian migrants are eating cats in Springfield, Ohio."
36% : Nine years of Trump have proven on a near-daily basis that that spell has been broken.
36% : The whole value proposition of Trump is to outrage the sensibilities of the Acela corridor elite; weaponizing one of their parochial professional obsessions against his chief 2024 opponent over a 14-year-old book no one's heard of was just never going to go very far.
29% : Are you going to vote for Donald Trump?"
27% : And when Trump won decisively, a New York Times subheading warned that "America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year history."
18% : There is more than enough myth making, academic exaggeration, and outright fabrication in Trump's co-written business book smash The Art of the Deal to give Biden and Harris a run for their money, yet whatever dishonesty is associated with that project ranks roughly 3,000th on any list of Trump transgressions, from "grab 'em by the pussy" to "stop the steal" to his 34-count felony conviction for fraud (regardless of that case's dubious propriety).
16% : Trump has been a one-man wrecking ball against the illusion that gatekeepers, whether in mainstream or conservative media, can establish and patrol the boundaries of acceptable political and intellectual decorum.
9% : Donald Trump at an October 3 rally charged that "Kamala spent all her FEMA money, billions of dollars, on housing for illegal migrants, many of whom should not be in our country....

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