I wonder if Peter Baker, The New York Times’ chief White House correspondent, ever considers his career—a spear carrier for the Democratic Party—and balances his estimable salary against the reality of his status as an irrelevant hack. Cash is cash (he’s also an author and cable TV guest), I’d guess, and maybe he consoles himself, happily ensconced in an “elite” Beltway bubble, that at least he’s not Jon Meacham, the historian/fabulist who told Joe Biden in 2021, with a minimum of arm-twisting, that he was the modern FDR. Читать дальше...