Hey Voters, the Media Are Very, Very Disappointed in You

Post-Election, The Media Still Haven’t Gotten the Message

Donald Trump’s overwhelming electoral win offered Democratic partisans in the press the opportunity to look in the mirror and figure out how they had missed voters’ brewing discontent. But by all appearances, the very pundits most in need of self-reflection have no intention of seizing that opportunity.

Trump improved his standing with the very groups his “hateful” rhetoric was supposed to alienate — younger voters, African Americans, Hispanics — exposing what passed for election analysis at the major corporate media outlets as wishful thinking.