What the likes of Steve Schmidt never acknowledge is their own complicity.

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12. My hope isn't to convince the Never Trumpers of their wrongdoing.

My hope is that Democrats and responsible members of the media will work hard to make sure an honest narrative takes hold in the public consciousness, and not the bogus narrative that the likes of Bill Kristol and Steve Schmidt are already attempting to establish.

As an example, there was a failure to properly push back against the "liberal media" narrative, and that has taken a serious toll. Republicans beat the "liberal media" drum for decades and it became a household term--it took hold in the public consciousness, as I say. Instead of defending the media or weakly denying the "liberal media" claim, there should have been a vehement counter-offensive about media consolidation in the hands of a few giant corporations, about the tendency to promote false equivalencies, about fluff, about giving equal time to lies and obfuscation, and so on. Now, though, we have members of the media going out of their way to not seem "biased" toward reality, toward facts. Losing the media messaging war has cost us dearly. Narrative matters. It matters a lot.