In 2016, Noonan made it clear that Trump was nothing like the revered Republican president

Author : houseaso112

Publish Date : 2021-01-08 14:34:18

Perhaps the strongest indicator of how the newspaper’s editorial view had shifted was in the change of tone from Peggy Noonan, a longtime conservative columnist for the paper.

In 2016, Noonan made it clear that Trump was nothing like the revered Republican president Ronald Reagan and that he didn’t represent the party. She argued Trump had numerous flaws that would make him a bad president. Four years later, Noonan laid the blame for Trump’s rise on the Republican Party.

In recent months, The Wall Street Journal, which has won dozens of Pulitzer Prizes for its journalism since it was founded in 1889, has had to contend with the division between its journalistic and editorial sides. Specifically, when the Hunter Biden email scandal was originally reported by The New York Post, the editorial side made claims that the news reporting side soon after contradicted.

If American conservatism continues to reflect Trumpism, that division could remain a reoccurring conflict in the WSJ’s newsroom.

The Federalist
The Federalist is an online conservative magazine that was founded in 2013 by Ben Domenech, alongside Sean Davis, Luke Sherman and Mollie Hemingway. All are writers or politicos with a conservative background. The Federalist was founded as an alternative to other media outlets, with a focus on conservative philosophy, which includes a preference for small government.

Domenech, who was previously forced to resign from The Washington Post for plagiarism, promised a publication “with the sharpest writers digging into the major issues of the day with a viewpoint that rejects the assumptions of the media establishment.”

As a site created by a younger generation of conservatives, The Federalist was initially even more expressive in their disdain of Trump than The Wall Street Journal. In 2016, contributors wrote articles with the titles, “ 5 Reasons Every American Should Oppose Donald Trump” and “ Donald Trump Is A Giant [Expletive] Hypocrite.”

In 2020, The Federalist published a piece criticizing Fox News host Chris Wallace for his “slanted questions” to Trump during the first presidential debate between him and Biden. “Wallace’s ongoing problem,” the author, Jordan Davidson wrote, “is that he has a working understanding of the issues based not on facts so much as the Democrat Party and the media’s canon of anti-Trump propaganda.”

Again, to see how dramatically The Federalist shifted its views on Trump, an examination of one of its main writers, Mollie Hemingway, is all that’s necessary. Hemingway, who has been with the online magazine since its creation, rarely minced words about how she felt about Trump prior to his election to the presidency.

In December 2015, she wrote, “I hate Donald Trump.” Her hatred was based on him, in her own words, being “a demagogue with no real solutions for anything at all.” She added:

“He’s a narcissist who takes no responsibility for the negative consequences of his ill-conceived and incoherent verbal spews. He flip-flops incessantly. He is not honest when called to account for previous things he’s said. He insults individuals and groups of people gratuitously. His ideas always involve an expansion in the size and scope of government.”

She did, to be fair, include some animosity for “Donald Trump Haters” as well: “If you hate Trump, that’s fine. But have the decency to hate other deserving people, too.”

Even after Trump had secured the Republican nomination, Hemingway was still expressing her displeasure with him. She tweeted an article from BuzzFeed News on July 24 entitled, “How Donald Trump Broke The Conservative Movement (And My Heart).” The article that Hemingway praised, like Noonan’s WSJ article, insisted that Trump didn’t represent Reagan conservatism.

Years later, not only has Hemingway changed her views on Trump, she has grown critical of Never Trumpers. She praised Trump for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, she defended him against claims of racism and she criticized “anti-Trump activists in journalism and politics.” She has labeled the media “hysterically anti-Trump.”

Hemingway has also frequently tweeted about alleged election fraud, even though Republican state election officials, Attorney General William Barr and international election watchers have all said there was no evidence of widespread fraud. The Federalist has also pushed the unsupported narrative that the election was stolen from Trump.

What’s next?
That many in the conservative media changed their mind on Trump isn’t inherently newsworthy. In the early days of his presidency, some predicted the responsibility of the office would change and soften Trump. It would, they claimed, make him more presidential and more conservative. Also, this thinking went, some of his proposed policies were actually in line with Republican ideology.

In hindsight, though, there is little evidence Trump changed while in office. Instead, the Republican Party has changed to fit him. Senator Lindsey Graham went from being one of Trump’s most biting critics in 2016 to one of the president’s most reliable advocates.

A similar transformation happened to Senator Marco Rubio, who called Trump a “con artist” and “the most vulgar person to ever aspire to the presidency” in 2016. In 2020, Rubio was mimicking Trump as he campaigned for the president’s reelection.Which raises the question, will those who once claimed that Trump didn’t truly represent the Republican Party now insist that the party remain in his image? Or will they shift again and distance themselves from Trump and Trumpism?

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