Original 11/5/2020 post, "GET ME REWRITE: Whether Trump wins or loses, Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman will continue to waste their time obsessing over his tweets", starts here.
And if he is forced to vacate the White House on Jan. 20, Mr. Trump is likely to prove more resilient than expected and almost surely will remain a powerful and disruptive force in American life. He received at least 68 million votes, or five million more than he did in 2016, and commanded about 48 percent of the popular vote, meaning he retained the support of nearly half of the public despite four years of scandal, setbacks, impeachment and the brutal coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 233,000 Americans. That gives him a power base to play a role that other defeated one-term presidents like Jimmy Carter and George Bush have not played.
And for ABC and NBC and CNN and Fox News and the New York Times and the Washington Post, ad nauseum.
The same goes for Trump's presidency.
Living on a steady diet of tweets for the past 4 years, the media shoulders much of the blame for elevating and normalizing such a clownish presidency,
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