The press postmortem of the 2024 general election is ongoing, and the grappling of the realities is something to behold. In the latest such example, Politico staffers drew up a list of trends they saw dying off as an effect of the results. The merits or accuracy are certainly debatable (which is always the intent of such lists), but what stands out here are the effects of the choices the publication selected.
In looking over the nine items offered, you can clearly see there is a sadness coming through on how these either did not work out in the Democrats’ favor or are presented as negative examples of things working out for the Republicans–often, specifically, Donald Trump. It is a revealing study, and most likely unintentionally so.
The first entry is Celebrity Endorsements, and how those did not work. They say that these have always been essential in…
