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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
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It's the asymmetry of political expectations. The same mechanism plays out in Australia.
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See also the UK, which is why the media (privately educated, moneyed, insulated) are so stunned by the utter shoeing the Tories are on course to receive next week.