Nope – no Lone Ranger for us!

Article in Politico by Michael Schaffer, 11/15/24

Headline:  “The Resistance Is Not Coming to Save You. It’s Tuning Out.”

Subhead:  “The first Trump administration sparked waves of public activism and aggressive media coverage. This time, not so much.”

“n the weeks before the 2024 election, no media platform had more catnip for Donald Trump’s detractors than the Drudge Report. Much of the time, its exclamation-pointed homepage banners were trumpeting the GOP candidate’s physical decay: Here, a link to Trump unable to open a garbage truck door! There, a newspaper editorial about his alarming cognitive decline! Just as often, they were announcing his danger to the republic. “EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO DEMOCRACY,” blared a typical late-October headline.

“One week after the election, it was a different story: Punching in Control-F on the Drudge homepage and searching the word “Trump” this Tuesday returned exactly zero hits.. . ”

“”. . .A media ecosystem that left so many Democrats surprised about Kamala Harris’ loss doesn’t much help the resistance, does it?”

“. . . Now, if the great blue tune-out of 2024 is what it appears to be, there won’t immediately be some new burst of energy to help serious publications grow back their numbers.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/15/trump-presidency-liberal-media-resistance-00189655