America’s political media – and especially our “punditocracy” – suffer from myriad defects. They love simple answers and often seem hostile to complexity. They tend to obsess slavishly over the latest polling data. And they suffer from a chronic amnesia that erases not only historical context but even very recent events from their narrow minds. Marking the end of President Joe Biden’s first year in office, the media consensus followed a predictable and familiar framing. […]
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