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It’d be understandable to want to skip right past this story, which explores the bizarre speech Donald Trump gave in Wisconsin on Wednesday night, a rare day off from his criminal election interference trial in Manhattan. The politician Trump has been unavoidable for nine years now, and at every turn, he gets worse.
And Wednesday night was no exception. Hot off nine contempt of court violations and a disastrous Time magazine interview that he surely thought went very well, Trump continues to spiral. But as President Joe Biden begged at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the media must cover the realities of the threat Trump presents, not just the gaffes or the horse race polling. Those on the right side of history must expose the dangers and avoid the cynical amusement that contributed to Trump’s 2016 win. He cannot be ignored. To pay attention to what he’s saying at rallies—and how well it’s received—is a duty voters all share as the fight heats up to defeat him once and for all in November.
Because as awful as he sounds to so many Americans, he sounds wonderful to others. Americans suffering from Trump fatigue ignore him at the peril of themselves, their communities, and the nation. And people cannot fight the enemy they do not know.
