With the former president solidly out of the White House & increasingly unlikely to make it back, I'm not convinced the media shd stay its course as a Trump-seeking missile. After 6y, our immune systems, vocabularies, social media tropes, forms like "threads"—all still trained on him. He's Moby-DIck to our Ahab. The threat he represented, esp in office, was real. But as the monopoly of Twitter lets up, Trump's monopoly on our attention, news outlets, imaginations & resources should let up too.
@virginiaheffernan That was tried. HuffPost covered his primary campaign as "entertainment" rather than "news". It didn't work, because Trump was effective at engaging his base regardless of how mainstream media treated him.
And if he's not getting the coverage he needs to remain relevant, he will do something egregious to get it. So far, I would conclude that hoarding documents at Mar-a-Lago was a good move for him, because he has yet to be meaningfully punished for it, and it keeps him in the news.
