1/2 Not to go into the other intramural aspects of this NYT note, but starting premise *has* to be called out:

*No* journalistic / political organization “anticipated" Trump win, including Trump campaign and RNC.

Check out Fox News stories the day before election.

2/2 A thousand things (Comey, “but her emails,” etc) broke a certain way, to lead to the results we’re now coping with.

But “Oh, we don’t know the country!” reflex led to a zillion “guy in a diner” stories.

(I speak having spent 2013-2016 mainly in places that voted R.)

3/To spell it out, having spent all those years in SD/ SC/ KS/ MS/ MI https://www.ourtownsbook.com/  I learned:
-IF you ask “guy in a diner” about *national* politics, it’s like turning on cable news
-If you ask about schools, econ, kids, immig, it’s very diff https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/07/ernestor-de-la-rosa/489977/

4/ Writers are supposed to be known by *what they write.*

Genuine Q: What is the outstanding writing by this person that we should recognize and remember?