New York Times comes out swinging at Trump amid accusations of favoring him

Critics have accused the New York Times of spending the past years fretting about President Joe Biden's age over questions about America's future under Donald Trump's leadership.

Message boards and newsletters from opinionated followers of politics are filled with questions asking what is "wrong" with the Times. It's also the subject of a recent piece published by Salon.

Such reports are "allowing it to steal attention away from the larger and far more serious danger posed by a second Trump administration," wrote CNN's Oliver Darcy Tuesday. "Critics have also argued that The Times covers Biden and Trump with disproportionate standards, placing false equivalence on issues surrounding the current president to those of the former president, who is facing 91 criminal counts and fantasized about being a dictator on 'day one.'"

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Now, suddenly, The Times editorial board is fretting about Trump being the Republican Party's candidate for a third time.

"This is a tragedy for the Republican Party and for the country it purports to serve," the board wrote on Wednesday.

"The Republican Party is forsaking all of those responsibilities and instead has become an organization whose goal is the election of one person at the expense of anything else, including integrity, principle, policy and patriotism," argued the Editorial Board.

"As an individual, Mr. Trump has demonstrated a contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law that makes him unfit to hold office," it wrote. "But when an entire political party, particularly one of the two main parties in a country as powerful as the United States, turns into an instrument of that person and his most dangerous ideas, the damage affects everyone."

Policy researcher Will Stancil pointed to the column, noting that "it's a searing description of a political party falling into a fascist cult of personality, and a warning the whole country may be next."

But neurophysiologist and science writer Barbara Tokaypointed out that the Times should look closer at itself if it wants to find solutions for those glorifying Trump.

"In which the @nytimes Editorial Board sees the dangers Trump poses while the @nytimes news reporting continues to glorify Trump's destructive power," she posted on the social media site X.