The establishment press, of which Noonan is a 'card carrying' member, excels at these two things: False equivalencies and herd mentality.

Spoiler alert: Trump and Harris are not equivalent in anything or in any way. All attempts at any comparison are fabricated out of whole cloth.

'Thinking outside the box' will get you ostracized from the 'elite' core of the establishment commentariat. Outlier opinions are to be mocked and ignored, not necessarily in that order.

As far as speech writer Peggy Noonan is concerned, struggling for relevance in the post-Regan era Republican Party, Marie Antoinette [fictitiously] said it best: "Let them eat cake."