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
I mean, that's a literal, denotative truth, yah? In our system, the left has the task of manifesting growth/change & the right has the task of hindering it, whether for social or financial reasons. They're meant to work in tandem, a single PushMe-PullYou entity; I don't think media caused the split.
Right, it’s created this strange tension where the center is actually “conservative” in the sense of “prudent, analyzed governance” (or even “governance, period”)
