One of the more enjoyable aspects of this past week has been watching the panic-stricken dying news media — CNN, Washington Post, and the like — figure out what to do with themselves now that Donald Trump is once again the most powerful man in the world.
Here’s an idea: Barring a spiritual intervention that moves journalists in Washington and New York to stop being maniacally deceitful sociopaths, they could take a back seat this time.
The environment for Trump’s second term almost makes it impossible for the media to do what they did the last time. One, because Trump is term-limited, so there’s not much use in trying to ratchet up hysteria with some new Big Lie that would deny him another one. And two, because the voters’ rejection of Kamala Harris was just as much a rejection of the media’s B.S. They’re over it.
But still-alive media…
