After years of shrugging off Trump’s lack of interest in working with Democrats, the press suddenly cares about bipartisanship

“I actually don't necessarily think that he has to reach out to the people that didn't vote for him,” said CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash in December 2016. “It would be nice if he did. It would be, you know, part of the tradition of presidents-elect and new presidents to do that. But he's not that person, and he's never going to be that person, and he's the guy who America elected.”

Bash was, of course, referring to Donald Trump, who was fresh off his upset victory in that...