Greg argues that Trump is finally paying a price for his nonstop lying. I guess; but I still don't think the media have fully learned how to deal with this 1/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
A trip down memory lane: I started writing for The Times during the 2000 campaign, in which GW Bush was obviously lying about taxes, Social Security, and more. But I was told that it wasn't OK to use the word "lie" 2/
Obviously we've gotten past that point. But you still have a lot of reports that normalize what's happening ("Candidates show sharp differences"). 3/
And we also still get theater criticism instead of substance: "Trump set a new tone" because although he lied about everything he did it without screaming and throwing things 4/
The good news, I think, is that many voters have wised up; whatever the soothing headlines, they know that anything Trump says should be presumed false unless proved otherwise 5/
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