"... But here is why 2024 may be Trump’s undoing: We have been here for nine long years. When Trump went after Hillary Clinton in 2016, the media didn’t know what to do with him, and Democrats did not know how to respond. Journalists debated for years over whether Trump’s lies should, in fact, be called lies. (Pretty much all outlets finally decided a lie is a lie.) In 2016, Democrats underestimated Trump right to the end. There’s none of that now.
"Trump was so novel and such a viewer-magnet that his harangues were
often shown in full on cable television. Sometimes, the media preferred
showing empty lecterns
anticipating Trump’s arrival to broadcasting the words of his foes in
either party. And, for a while in 2016, the media occasionally
rationalized their decisions by blaming Clinton
for not being interesting enough. That’s not happening anymore. Or, at
least, not to the same degree, because Trump’s act has grown tired and often boring, as his Republican convention speech showed..." -- E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post, on why 2024 is not 2016, how the Malignant Loser is facing a changed political landscape, and that "Trump and the media will make a big mistake by fighting and covering the last war." It should go without saying that underestimating the Malignant Loser and his feral fan base would be a democracy- ending catastrophe. We But, we're not letting that happen anymore, right? We know what's coming and we're going to stay on offense through November 5 (because "When we fight, we win.")
