Sanewashing? The banality of crazy? A decade into the Trump era, media hasn’t figured him out

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Sanewashing? The banality of crazy? A decade into the Trump era, media hasn't figured him out

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Is the media “sanewashing” Donald Trump? Numbed by the “banality of crazy?” Should television networks show him more, or less? How do you fact-check him? Should you?

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