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  The Corporate Media Continue to Ignore That Trump Is an Explicit Threat to Democracy Somebody should tell the New York Times and others that it is, in fact, their job to treat one candidate with pronounced alarm when the threat posed is as clear and severe as this. Donald Trump and many of his supporters have explicitly promised to overturn American democracy, using Viktor Orbán’s “illiberal democracy” Hungarian model — where the press is controlled, political opposition sidelined or imprisoned, and oligarchs run the government — as their model. But you rarely hear that from our media. Back on May 5th, Semafor’s Ben Smith  interviewed  New York Times Editor Joe Kahn, who echoed a perspective that seems widespread across America’s mainstream media newsrooms: that their job is to report what they consider “news,” but not to defend democracy itself. His exact quote was: “One of the absolute necessities of democracy is having a free and fair and open election where people c...