A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles.
Thinking about that a lot.
I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense
Basic white hats and black hats script. You introduce the players and stakes in the first act. You need to manufacture a moral crisis for the white hats and question their leadership in the second act, and you better make sure the black hats *nearly* win in the third act.
