There was no scarcity of finger-pointing among the many chattering lessons after Donald Trump’s election. However now, because the mud settles and 2024 involves an in depth, it’s excessive time for some soul-searching and reflection. That’s the purpose of this 12 months’s remaining episode of Contained in the Hive, which can also be the final episode that I can be internet hosting after having returned to CNN earlier this 12 months as chief media analyst. On the episode, I’m joined by Hive editor Michael Calderone and government editor Claire Howorth to unpack what they bought improper in 2024 in addition to the teachings they will take into subsequent 12 months. That, as Howorth factors out, means redefining what truly constitutes “various media,” which unexpectedly proved to be instrumental in turning out new components of Trump’s base. Political charisma and celeb can also’t go underestimated, Calderone provides, noting that Democrats ought to attempt to raise leaders who can talk successfully in quite a lot of codecs. “The subsequent individual,” he says, “is gonna want star energy.”
In fact, it received’t simply be Democrats tasked with main the resistance; the media, too, may have an enormous duty to its viewers: “We’re normalizing Trump within the sense that we’re overlaying him as a president-elect and the president,” as Calderone explains, “however we’re additionally declaring when norms are being flouted and when establishments are being stretched. As an example, this previous weekend, his musing about [ending] birthright citizenship I believe is an instance of the place the media, sure, is looking out that this is able to be a radical change within the Structure. And so we have to be clear on the norms being damaged—however not begin this administration questioning whether or not Donald Trump is the president or not. He is the president. He was elected.”
One other problem for the media—and Democrats, for that matter—can be combating the rising tide of sexism that Trump fueled and that probably contributed to Kamala Harris’s loss. Misogyny is “reasserting itself and its supremacy,” as Howorth argues. “I don’t actually care who disagrees with me. I believe there’s no manner of reckoning with Harris’s loss with out understanding she is a lady, she is a Black lady…. Let’s discuss whether or not or not it might be insane for Democrats to run a lady a 3rd time.”
Subsequent 12 months Contained in the Hive will return with an all-new format to cowl Trump 2.0.
