‘Stephen Miller should die’ is a bad look for the media — and a gift to Trump

The so-called “newsy” bit read: “And while I am generally loathe [sic] to wish physical harm on those I disagree with, and while I do wish Katie a speedy recovery, I’m comfortable shedding whatever objectivity I have here to say I desperately hope Stephen Miller contracts covid-19.”

It was a piece entitled, just to hammer the bluntness, “I Will Personally Be Thrilled If Stephen Miller Dies of Covid-19.” It was written by Molly Osberg and published online at the feminist website Jezebel.

No need to read much more to get the gist. The writer, who is correctly critical of President Trump’s senior policy adviser’s racist and nationalist ideas, welcomes the news that his wife, an aide to Vice President Mike Pence, has contracted coronavirus, in hopes that her husband catches it. And dies.