Brooks has been blindsided by Trump, so much that he says,
Moreover, many in the media, especially me, did not understand how they would express their alienation. We expected Trump to fizzle because we were not socially intermingled with his supporters and did not listen carefully enough. For me, it’s a lesson that I have to change the way I do my job if I’m going to report accurately on this country.
You and all the thousands of pundits that expected him to fizzle, or worse, that now are showing contempt for those supporting him, like Kevin Williamson.
Brooks mentions recent work by Politico that shows we should despise Trump for his prevarication:
Trump is perhaps the most dishonest person to run for high office in our lifetimes. All politicians stretch the truth, but Trump has a steady obliviousness to accuracy.
This week, the Politico reporters Daniel Lippman, Darren Samuelsohn and Isaac Arnsdorf fact-checked 4.6 hours of Trump speeches and press conferences. They found more than five dozen untrue statements, or one every five minutes.
“His remarks represent an extraordinary mix of inaccurate claims about domestic and foreign policy and personal and professional boasts that rarely measure up when checked against primary sources,” they wrote.
Yikes.
from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/141252225842
