The literal-mindedness of the mainstream media

Trump was not predicting a “bloodbath”, and everyone knows it.

Literal-mindedness is bad enough, but the pretence of literal-mindedness is surely even worse. I was thinking about this when I saw the mainstream media collectively play-acting in their assertions that Donald Trump’s remarks about a “bloodbath” at a rally in Ohio were some kind of threat of insurrection should he lose the election. It is perfectly clea…