And yet, here we are just eight days from the election and Donald Trump is not even the lead story. Instead, the media—every institution from the cable news networks to the New York Times—have gone mad obsessing over the latest news about Hillary Clinton’s emails. The disgrace of this is not merely that we have no idea what the latest revelation from FBI Director James Comey will or will not tell us about Clinton’s behavior. It is also that the entire press corps has shifted its focus to a relatively minor issue at a time when Donald Trump remains the primary threat to American democracy.