I don't know if this is the correct forum to post this, but it's a good debate/discussion.
As far as I'm concerned Cillizza gets his backside handed to him. The worst part of all he wrote though, to me, is when he said 'some of the media views of Trump 'border on elitism.'
To me 'elite' 'elitist' and 'elitism' have become so overused, they're essentially meaningless terms now except when used in their original context.
A media critic called my sort of journalism ‘pathetic.’ Then we had an email conversation about it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/16/a-media-critic-called-my-sort-of-journalism-pathetic-then-we-had-an-email-conversation-about-it/
