Media Malpractice: If 'No One Could Have Known,' How Come We Did?

We're one year into Trump's second term, and you know, a lot of the media class is ever so slowly coming to their senses. What took them so long?

Last April, David Brooks published a long essay in The Atlantic titled “I Should Have Seen This Coming,” in which he acknowledged that he’d underestimated how much conservatism had become pure anti-liberal reaction. Jon Stewart, who spent the early weeks of the second Trump administration chiding liberals for being too quick to use the word “fascism,” eventually conceded on air...