Yes, there was a media scandal in 2024. No, it wasn't about Joe Biden.

Washington to the beginning of Donald Trump's first term in office was a popular riposte of right-wing reports on social media to real and perceived cultural excesses of “the left”: “So we have Trump.”

Eight years later we get another round of the same clever retort, only this time the culprits are not progressive activists, but reporters who reported Joe Biden's white house. Apparently we console ourselves together with bids family members and areas to hide its deteriorating physical and mental state from America.

It is an astonishing claim that surveys found in early 2024 that about 80% of the Americans believed that bidges were too old to be president. The participants of the focus group said they were shocked that he even ran again. It turned out that people looked at their own conclusions from the view of his breastfeeding public speeches and videos of his always noticeable old man.

This conspiracy clearly failed from the beginning.

People who are surprised that the democratic establishment has recorded bidges as long as it did not understand presidential campaigns. The biggest factor that determines a choice is whether the candidate is already the seated president. The term of office offers enormous advantages, from donations to the pictures of this large, blue and white 747 tropics.

If Biden had announced at the end of 2022 or early 2023 that he would not run again, these advantages for Democrats would have immediately evaporated. Do people believe that an Open -Field primary season would have produced a candidate who would have hit Trump?

The great irony is that the media in their reporting on the 2024 presidential campaign consisted of absolutely misconduct – not in how she reported to the sitting president, but as reported by the challenger.

Donald Trump attacked the constitution he had sworn to defend after he lost the re -election in 2020. He invited his followers to Washington long after the voices had been counted, she turned into an angry mob and then stopped her in his own vice president and the congress to second.

It was the next America that has lost our democracy since the first year of the civil war. However, within weeks of January 6, 2021, the reporters began to go on a hike to Mar-A-Lago to interview him, and somehow managed to submit stories that completely elidated the day. I remember a podcast interview with someone who was asked how Trump explained his behavior on January 6th and the reporter replied that the topic had not appeared.

I was and remained amazed.

As a young reporter, I covered criminals all day. The idea of ​​agreeing to a jailhouse interview with a suspect with the understanding that I would not have detailed the indictment against him in history would never have occurred to me. Even if it were, my editors would never have tolerated such an order.

And yet until late spring 2022. They played down or ignored the fundamental violence that he had signed against our democracy in their reporting, in return for the possibility of an interview or even just anonymous quotes from top consultants.

(Because really, what kind of reporter are you if you cannot publish a few hours in advance, whether Trump will call Governor Ron Desantis in his rally speech “meatballs” or “Fat Ron”?)

Just like an example: In contrast to any other modern presidential candidate, Trump refused to take a traveling press pool with him. Instead, he and his employees handmade reporters for every trip. You can probably guess which reporters have been invited and which not.

There was an implicit understanding that access to the Republican candidate led to it that it would not represent him as a fundamental, proven threat to American democracy. What he was of course back then and who he continues to prove himself closer to each other every day.

I don't want how important the role of the media is in Trump's return of media. In view of the exponential growth of Niche New News Outlets, a large number of which they are barely more than propaganda business by one anti-democratic billionaire with or another bankroll, it is so inclined for those who are so inclined not to annoy their existing worldviews.

However, repetition over a broad part of the media is a repetition. When memories of Trump's actions before and on January 6 had been repeated as often as Hillary Clinton's decision to use a private e -mail server who knows what happened. A non-Democracy candidate without a coup attack that can create democratic candidate from the republican elementary school.

In the end, however, the customer is always right in a market economy. And here was the customer of the voters, who developed live on television on January 6, how Trump's Mob attacked police officers, as the prosecutors explained a case, why what he did violated the law, and then decided that all of this was less bad than bidens in inability to control food.

The sad truth is that inflation in late 2022, instead of in mid -2023, decreased almost 3%. Joe Biden would probably be in his second term at the moment. Despite all the storms and urge on his mental deterioration, he managed to get the country out of a pandemic and, together with the chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell, avoid a recession that provided a solid economy with low unemployment and decent growth. He brought massive, long-needed investments in the high-tech industry as well as in low-tech streets and bridges. He came together NATO to stand against the most outrageous war of conquest since 1939. Apart from the Afghan withdrawal, which actually happened before this deterioration, what bad decisions did he make because of his age?

Although it is absolutely correct that he had become terrible in the public appearance – although he was never really good in it – there seems to be hardly evidence that his age affects his ability to analyze facts and make well -founded decisions.

But inflation did not come early enough, and now we have a president who is almost as old as bidges, but with the temperament of a toddler and the customs of an 11-year-old boy from the island of “Lord of the Flies”.

The efforts of the political media to normalize him was clear that Trump's open conversation about revenge and vows, except constitutional power, to take up that America risked a slide into autocracy when the voters brought him back to the White House.

An even sader truth is that America is confronted with the choice between democracy and the promise of cheaper Doritos.

We never wanted to get the latter, and as it becomes clearer from day to day, we will be lucky enough to get through this with an appearance of the former.