NPR’s sanitizing of Trump’s Milwaukee rally shows how he’s broken the media

In trying to be above taking sides, the mainstream media does Trump a favor by making order out of his chaos.

By almost any standard, President Donald Trump’s rally on Tuesday evening in Milwaukee was a bizarre affair. The president went on a lengthy tirade about lightbulbs, toilets, and showers; touted war crimes; joked about a former president being in hell; and said he’d like to see one of his domestic political foes locked up.

I tried to capture some of the speech’s disconcerting oddness in my write-up of the...