What Trump Got Right

It took me years to admit it.

One of Donald Trump’s favorite talking points during his first term in office was “fake news.” The media is lying to you, he would say. The press is “the enemy of the people.”

I hated Trump, so naturally I agreed with the media’s response to his accusations. Trump was a danger to democracy, maybe even a Russian asset. His goal was to undermine U.S. insti…