Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: The ex-president gave an unhinged speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Most headlines evaded the issue.
. The goal of such a pledge, Hutchinson asserted, was to avoid a situation in which a spurned GOP contender might run as a third-party candidate — “that would be the threat from Donald Trump,” he said. “If you’re going to have a pledge, have it say that ... the candidates who participate in the debate are not going to run as a third-party candidate, and that would solve that issue.” Hutchinson remains a lonely island of decency in a sea of cowardice.
Coverage can be so bland and innocuous as to mislead. The audience — that is, potential voters — might easily come away from such coverage believing that Trump acted like a normal candidate, not a figure plainly unfit to handle any public position. And interviews can be so inept as to allow Republicans to repeatedly avoid explaining how in the world they could support someone so unfit for office.
If you put cowering Republicans together with media unwilling to accurately describe what is going on in front of them, you wind up gaslighting voters, who come away with the impression that Trump’s carnival of crazy is acceptable. We know how this ends: If no one is willing to call out Trump for what he is, and the danger he poses to the United States, we risk returning him to the Oval Office.
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