The voting public saw through the Democrat’s attempts to use lawfare against President-elect Trump and rejected it when they voted to re-elect him.
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ThereactiontothereelectionofDonaldTrumpinthemediahasrangedfrom histrionictooutrighthysteria.MSNBCanalystandformerSen.ClaireMcCaskillweptopenlyontelevisionasCBSNewsanchorJohnDickersongotchokeduponnationaltelevisioninaninterviewon “TheLateShowwith StephenColbert,” strugglingtodiscussthenewsdaysaftertheelection.
However,arguablythemostperplexingresponsecameafewdaysagowhentheNewYorkTimesranacolumnfromoneoftheadvocatesofthelawfareusedagainstTrumpsince2016.
YaleLawProfessorSamuelMoynhaslongbeenafavoriteoftheNewYorkTimesaspartofwhatIhave previously describedasacounter-constitutionalmovementinhighereducation.AsIdiscussinmybook, “TheIndispensableRight,” MoynandothershaveinsistedthattheconstitutionitselfmaybetheproblemwithAmerica.
JONATHANTURLEY:IGNORETHETEARSANDRAGEOF‘OBJECTIVE’MEDIA
InapriorNewYorkTimes op-ed,“The
