Source: The Dispatch
by Nick Catoggio
“Legacy conservative media sometimes has the feel of an old operating system straining to run new software it wasn’t designed for. All of American media has had that problem since 2015. If you program an OS to process politics within certain parameters and then you download a piece of malware like Donald Trump, the computer’s going to start smoking and occasionally spitting out gibberish. In the case of legacy conservative media, the OS tries to process Trump through the pathways of familiar right-wing grievances. … The old OS is still processing Trump as a basically normal Republican politician (albeit with some eccentricities) who’s broadly in line with American civic traditions. But he isn’t.” (09/17/24)
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/hot-blooded/