We have to act now. There's no time for any delay.

The rest of you supposed Republicans.

Why are you so quiet on Cruz 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. We're still. Hello and welcome.

Hello and welcome to Trump-cast, the series finale.

I'm Virginia Heffernan.

As we bid farewell to Trump cast 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 describe

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

protected speech.

And on the exigencies of Trump,

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