Summary: Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan Donald Trump is going to be president. When he reaches the Oval Office, he will be as hellbent on accumulating power, at the expense of liberal values, as he was on the campaign trail. Many things will get in his way, and when they do, he will try to crush them. This is not a drill. The real test of our democratic institutions has just begun. One of those institutions is the free press. Our free press has taken its liberty for granted for so long that it has lost the muscle memory required to defend itself. As civil society regroups, and prepares to resist Trump’s encroachment on democracy, everyone needs to stop and think and internalize what their role in this brave new world is. Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan has some thoughts on how to do that. New Republic Senior Editor Brian Beutler sat down with her at Post headquarters to sketch out a gameplan.
