The Media Meltdown of Today Started Ten Years Ago

Victor Davis Hanson: The hubris of deifying Obama has now come full circle to the Nemesis of demonizing Trump.

by Victor Davis Hanson
August 4, 2017

Between 2008 and 2016, the media were unapologetic about their adoration of President Barack Obama. Now, they are energized by their thorough loathing of President Donald Trump.

In tragic fashion, the Hubris of deifying Obama has now come full circle to the Nemesis of demonizing Trump. The common denominator of the two extremes is the abandonment of disinterested reporting.

When Obama announced his candidacy for president in 2007, the media relinquished all pretenses of objectivity. The progressive Obama, who had the most partisan record in the U.S. Senate after less than four years in office, appeared to progressive journalists to have come from central casting: glib and charismatic, an Ivy-League pedigree, mixed racial ancestry, a power marriage to a Harvard-trained black lawyer, and an exotic name resonant of multicultural fides.

By comparison, even the would-be first female president Hillary Clinton seemed staid. In the 2008 general election, moder…