President Donald Trump keeps lashing out at the media as “the enemy of the people”. His surrogates refuse to say whether they agree with that description of the press, notably Sarah Sanders when she is accosted by CNN’s Jim Acosta in the White House.
Journalists, including conservative anti-Trump pundits like Bret Stephens of The New York Times, are being threatened with dire consequences. Alarming? Yes, but there may be method in Trump’s rant.
The above excerpt was originally published in The Times of India.
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