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The rest of you suppose Republicans, why are you so quiet on cruise and holly?

Trump is coming for this party. This is going to be the Trump party and it's going to,

if they don't do something, it's going to have consequences forever.

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the series finale. I'm Virginia Heffernin. As we bid farewell

to Trumpcast and blessedly to Donald Trump, it's a reflective moment for not just history,

but for what some academics call historiography. The study of how history is told and written.

So this finale has two only somewhat sentimental parts. Jay Rosen, the ranking media critic,

joins me to talk about failures and successes of the media. In writing this janky first draft

of history with highs and lows, a first draft made jankier still because the media has

been stalked and enslaved to Twitter. It's been relentlessly deconstructed, addled,

reformed and turned brittle and defensive in response to me too, the exigencies and insults

of an autocratic administration and of course new and more consequential forms of speaking

truth to power, including podcasts and even giving the powerful the hook and denying them

the center stage they feel is their birthright. Just so you missed the code, that's how I described

cancel culture, where cancellation in the private sector is among the highest forms of protected

speech. And on the exigencies of Trump, the relatively new turn of the century fetish

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