President Trump was elected despite the establishment that kept up their personal attacks believing, wrongly as it turned out, that they would make short work of the buffoon in Trump Tower. Say: “Egg On Our Face”.
The respectable east coast press loathe president Trump. they are united on that. They are obsessed with documenting his bad taste, with finding faults in his stupid tweets, with nailing him and his associates for this Russian scandal and that one. They outwit the simple-minded billionaire. They find the devastating scoops. The op-ed pages come to resemble Democratic fundraising pitches. The news sections are all Trump all the time. They have gone ballistic so many times the public now yawns when it sees their rockets lifting off. They have been losing.
Since January 2016 the Huffington Post began appending a denunciation of Trump as a “serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, birther and bully” to every single story about the man. the rest of the establishment picked up on it. they didn’t notice few voters believed them.
Trump wasted them with one word: “FAKE”. It stuck the Liberal press has become irrelevant.
The media are professionals. They believe in the things that so many other professional groups believe in: consensus, “realism”, credentialing, the wisdom of their fellow professionals and (of course) the stupidity of the people.
This is the key to understanding many of their biases – and also for understanding why they are so utterly oblivious to how they appear to the rest of America.
A tiny handful of people and publications and ideas are in; everyone else is out.
It’s about legitimacy, of course, and what’s left of the respectable press is utterly captivated by their theme. It completely defines their war on Trump, for example. They know what a politician is supposed to look like and act like and sound like; they know that Trump does not conform to those rules; and they react to him as a kind of foreign object jammed rudely into their creamy world, a Rodney Dangerfield defiling the fancy country club. Trump won. He keeps on winning. The media doesn’t get it. Trump does. So do the people.
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