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
In a way it's justified, or would be if only they could recognize that's what they're doing. Democrats and journalists both belong to the "reality-based community", they speak very similar languages. But journalists cling so hard to the belief that they can/should take the "view from nowhere".
