As the élite media casts about for ways to under­stand and explain the rise of Donald Trump, they may find out­size his­tor­i­cal prece­dents (as Politico did when it asked 13 his­to­ri­ans to name “the clos­est antecedent to Trump”), or cite Richard Hofstadter’s “Paranoid Style” (as the New Yorker, CNN and Salon did — even while TNR’s Jeet Heerwarned against … Continue read­ing The Media Made This F**king Monster: How Phony Objectivity Helped Create Donald Trump