Donald Trump's Project 2025 Coverup Is Failing
The only way to make campaign reporters care about the policy stakes of elections is for candidates to act like they have something to hide.
Trying to persuade campaign reporters to place the substantive stakes of American elections at the center of their coverage is a worthy pursuit, but a grueling chore.
Usually it fails, sometimes disastrously.
In 2000, wonks and watchdogs were at pains to convince horserace journalists that much was at stake in November—b…