The media's coverage of Joe Biden is pretty appalling, especially when they seem to still treat Trump like he's even a slightly normal political figure. Because of a pathological need for "balance" every story that makes Trump look bad has to be balanced by one that makes Biden look bad. So, we have endless stories about Hunter Biden and Joe's age, because that's what they have to work with, now that inflation is receding.
Josh Marshall suggests that you simply need to report - with some sense of moral judgment - about Trump's many legal travails and his batshit utterances. In particular he dismisses the urge to "de-platform" Trump, which one of his readers suggests does indeed work.
You can't de-platform the presumptive Republican nominee for president though. The real question is how do you report on Trump's insane utterances without "flooding the zone." The idea of flooding the zone is how Trump does so many egregiously horrible things that it's impossible to properly conceptualize them. The suggestion that Mark Milley is a traitor is so over the top batshit crazy that it should one of those myriad things that would once have ended a politician's career. Trump's ability to overwhelm critical judgment is tough to cover.
I do wonder/hope that if Trump continues to have a steady drumbeat of bad legal news like he had yesterday that it will eventually sink in. Of course, it's appalling that any sentient human could have lived through the chaos and criminality of Trumpistan and wish to return there. For Cult 45 there is no news story that will break his hold on their devotion. The fact - not the opinion, the fact - that it has been proven in a court of law that he sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll and defrauded people left, right and center has to make a difference, doesn't it?
Doesn't it?
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