Jack Shafer: “Demagogues like Donald Trump exhaust the patience of the political press corps because reporters fundamentally misunderstand the candidate’s appeal.”
“Reporters like to think that logic and reason hold sway, so they believe a demagogue can be easily disarmed by exposing his crimes against logic, his pandering to the uninformed and his manipulative emotionalism. They’re entirely wrong—as the last month of The Donald’s unlikely rise to the top of the Republican presidential heap has demonstrated day after day.”
