I agree to a large extent. I’m an ex-journalist (one of those pushed out by the changing journalism economy) as well as someone horrified by the election results. I contributed a significant amount of time in an effort to see that a Democrat would stay in the White House.

All that said, this article is a prime example of why so many people who supported Trump distrust the kind of media I was proud to work for (and am still proud that I did). It assumes from the beginning that there was only one obvious choice in the election. It assumes that if only the voting public had known what the author knows it would have chosen Clinton. It assumes that anyone smart would have agreed with the author.

And it is exactly that attitude that turned off so many voters to journalists’ preferred candidate. The problem isn’t that the media failed to inform; it’s that they insulted their viewers and readers in the way that they did so, and so the insulted ones got their revenge in the only way they knew how.