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I Was an Enemy of the People
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Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial.
By Alexander Nazaryan
Thrilling, without a single boring day: That’s how I’d describe my four years as an enemy of the people, a lanyard-wearing member of the “Lügenpresse,” a term some Donald Trump supporters borrowed from the Nazis to refer to insufficiently flattering coverage of their movement, or of the man who led it.
I miss it already.
I miss it terribly, even if I miss little else about the past four years. Without quite meaning to, Trump reminded journalists that their relationship to power should be adversarial. I hope my colleagues in the press corps (I am a national correspondent for Yahoo News) remember that, as some measure of pre-Trumpian courtliness returns to the White House briefing room.
The brandishing of Nazi imprecations was yet another sign that Trump took things way too far.
But he didn’t exact