The media may be waking up to the threat of Donald Trump

There are no more dog whistles. No code words. No efforts to hide the truth. When it comes to democracy, Republicans are against it.

That little nugget may have been just one of the endless series of mistakes, slip-ups, and misstatements that the media seems willing to overlook when it comes to Donald Trump. But even if that’s the case, you don’t have to go far to understand what Trump has in mind for America. There’s “Agenda47,” where Trump promises to expand the death penalty, end birthright citizenship, and create giant “tent cities” for homeless people. And there’s the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which lays out plans to destroy the Department of Justice and replace tens of thousands of career federal employees with conservatives pledged to Trump’s will.

But this past week, it seems that major media outlets woke up enough to realize that whistling past the Chancellery may not be the best idea.