Donald Trump is a known commodity; There is nothing mysterious about him and his horribleness. Both because of and despite his perfidy and dangerousness, Trump is the leading 2024 Republican Party presidential candidate. He is also tied with or leading President Biden in early 2024 presidential polls. This means that many tens of millions of Americans know exactly who and what Donald Trump is, and they still want him to return to the White House where he will become, as he is publicly promising and threatening to do, the country's first de facto dictator.
Instead of embracing real pro-democracy journalism and consistently warning the American people about the proven dangers of Donald Trump and the larger neofascist movement, the country's news media continues to normalize him. The most recent prominent example of this type of media malpractice is NBC's decision to give the ex-president a platform on last Sunday's edition of the venerable TV news program "Meet the Press."
