"My personal opinion is that Trump has largely been consistent on the things that he has cared about since the day he came down that escalator. The chaos has been consistent in how he’s gone about it, too. And so if you were to reorient yourself into recognizing the forces that were motivating him, I don’t think anything’s actually been all that surprising. I think these four years were a kind of a manifestation of what he promised to bring upon the country. So, in that way, I don’t see the last four years as this journalistic anomaly that will never be replicated again. I think that it is one piece of what is a larger conflict in America. And I think that a risk is that a Biden administration that is better at norms, that is better at the kind of baseline stuff that people have come to get outraged about, will blind people to the forces that led to Trump in the first place."
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Astead Herndon
Astead Wesley Herndon (born March 31, 1993) is an American journalist. Since October 2025, he hosts a podcast and directs political coverage at Vox. He was previously a reporter for The New York Times, where he covered politics and hosted the podcast The Run-Up. He has also contributed to CNN and reported for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and The Boston Globe.
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