The MSM continue to flounder to understand the Trump phenomenon, and particularly the voting by four-fifths of white evangelicals in his favor. But this unintelligibility has a basic epistemological source: few in the MSM are members of the group under scrutiny.
If the MSM were trying to understand and report on a feature of female voting, or black voting, or immigrant voting, basic epistemology would suggest not only speaking to such people, but having such people on one's team. You know: actual female reporters, or black columnists, or immigrant editors.
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