“In 2016, his Republican primary opponents didn’t recognize
that we are living in an age of bread and circuses, an age Donald Trump didn’t
create but into which he inserted his own circus. Curiosity seekers filled the
tent and loved the show.”
“The sophisticates in the media thought they could beat
Donald Trump at this game by burying him under waves of negative publicity. But
he feeds off of it, just as he turned the Philadelphia Eagles’ White House
no-show into a display of patriotic music, with the maestro at the center.”
“Now, fantastically, some Democrats are complaining that
they can’t get their message out (the tax cut didn’t work, Medicare for all)
because Donald Trump has blotted out the media sun. Gee whiz, whose fault is
that?”
“The eclipse won’t end. The media has turned the Trump
presidency into a phenomenon of constant self-absorption—their self-absorption
in this one person. Donald Trump has become the biggest balloon in a
political Macy’s parade of modern media’s own creation. They could
let go of the ropes. But they won’t.” ─ Daniel
Henninger, Wall
Street Journal
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