How Trump’s Race-Baiting Lets Liberals Off the Hook

On the last day of August, the Fox News host Laura Ingraham interviewed President Trump on her show, “The Ingraham Angle.” Five weeks earlier, Trump endured a half-hour interview with the Axios political reporter Jonathan Swan, who grilled Trump about Covid-19 with the kind of disdain economics professors reserve for a graduate student who botches the calculation. Ingraham was the anti-Swan, fawning and pat. Leaning forward in her chair with a warm expression, she tossed softballs and gently guided the president back on track when he veered into politically risky territory.