Source: The Bulwark
by Nicholas Grossman
“A gambler goes on tilt after betting big on a strong favorite and losing, especially when the loss comes to someone playing erratically and getting lucky. It can feel like nothing makes sense, the rules don’t apply anymore, and maybe the best thing to do is the opposite of what you feel you should do. For eight years, mainstream media institutions have been on tilt in their coverage of Trump: They’ve held him to a lower standard and centered his voters, presuming that nothing can hurt his support and bad things probably help. It is as if the normal rules of politics have been turned upside-down. The 2024 election will show whether they really have been — and whether Trump’s fluke victory in 2016 really was a watershed.” (10/22/24)