A note on my coverage. My goal in writing about Trump has been to write about him like he was any other president. That standard is practically impossible to keep, because his offenses are at a scale and frequency so far beyond the historic norm.
The standard of "Would this story merit dropping everything and writing about immediately?" is one normal presidents meet every few weeks, or less. For Trump it's several times a day.
Yesterday @gregpmiller reported Trump making one of the most anti-Semitic comments any modern president has uttered. A normal pol would be facing calls to resign over this: nymag.com/intelligencer/…
@gregpmiller last night, trump refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power. Again, a resignation-level by normal standards nymag.com/intelligencer/…
@gregpmiller In the middle of that, I wrote about the Senate Ukraine report, which is the culmination of a scandal over which Trump was impeached nymag.com/intelligencer/…
@gregpmiller Anyway, I am not complaining, merely noting that the effect of all this is to make my goal of holding Trump to normal standards impossible. There's just too much. And I think this happens with political journalists in general.
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