Trump Keeps Attacking Americans. Why Does He Get Away With It?

Democrats don’t do this. When Trump calls Baltimore “rat infested” or posts videos of himself defecating on protesters, there’s no coordinated response. A few members of Congress might tweet about it. Some Democratic voters express outrage online. But there’s no sustained campaign to make it a defining scandal. There are no prime-time speeches on the House floor. No carefully orchestrated media blitz.

And the media, with its long-standing bias toward treating Republican grievances as more legitimate than Democratic ones, follows the lead of whichever party is making the most noise. Republicans scream about “deplorables” for weeks, so it becomes a story. Democrats shrug at Trump’s latest attack on blue America, so it doesn’t.

The result is that Trump can post a video of himself as “King Trump” bombing American citizens with feces, and it barely registers. No demands for apologies. No wall-to-wall cable news coverage. No op-eds about presidential decorum or the need for unity. Just another day in an administration that has, from the start, treated roughly half the country with open contempt.