Yesterday’s edition of the NYT “The Daily” podcast was twice as long as usual. Titled “Trump 2.0: What a Second Trump Presidency Would Bring,” it’s described this way:
In a special series leading up to Election Day, “The Daily” will explore what a second Trump presidency would look like, and what it could mean for American democracy.
In the first part, we will look at Tump’s plan for a second term. On the campaign trail, Trump has outlined a vision that is far more radical, vindictive and unchecked than his first one.
Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, political correspondents for The Times, and Charlie Savage, who covers national security, have found that behind Trump’s rhetoric is a highly coordinated plan to make his vision a reality.
My first instinct was that this effectively made the NYT political team part of the Biden re-election effort, as so many of its staffers and liberal commentators have been demanding. As I listened though, I decided that this is simply deep reporting, staying on just this side of commentary. While it’s rather clear that neither the show host nor the reporters are Trump fans—or, indeed, likely Republican voters even in more normal times—they were, as Swan rightly noted, not engaged in “fan fiction.” They are merely taking the words that Trump says over and over again in his campaign rallies both seriously and literally.
There’s not yet a transcript available (given them another day or so) but the Charle Homans Magazine feature “Donald Trump Has Never Sounded Like This” that I dissected Saturday and the December 4 essay “Why a Second Trump Presidency May Be More Radical Than His First” by Savage, Swan, and Haberman are presented as background reading.
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Author: James Joyner
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