How do you cover something that, at worst, lays the groundwork for a coup attempt and, at best, represents a brazen lie that could be deeply damaging to American democracy? You don’t want to underplay something this dangerous, either,” Noah Shachtman, editor of the Daily Beast, told me. Rather, because the constant drumbeat that the election was somehow illegitimate does harm all by itself. Even Fox News, Trump’s longtime cheerleader, quickly started using the term “president-elect” to refer to Biden. Thus we get chyrons and headlines such as this one in Axios: “As Trump fights the transition in D.C., the world moves on to Biden.”ADFeels about equal, right?

Source: Washington Post November 12, 2020 15:04 UTC