For the past eight years, the media has dedicated the bulk of its energy, and the best of its talent, to promoting the idea that Trump is an existential threat to the United States. It’s taken many forms, from the Russia collusion hoax (solicited and paid for by the Clinton campaign) to the recent Hitler hysteria, when journalists tried to convince the public that Trump is literally the second coming of the man who systematically murdered six million Jews (albeit one with an Orthodox Jewish daughter).

So you might expect the media’s response to last night’s apocalyptic outcome — not only a second Trump term, but one delivered with a sweeping win in the popular vote, Senate, and likely House — to be equally hyperbolic. And to an extent, that’s true. A number of the country’s mainstream outlets spent the early hours of the morning spinning up new Manichean narratives and fresh paranoid metaphors about this “dark” moment. But, a notable swath of the media’s coverage has been uncharacteristically sane.

Today, what we’re seeing is a forking of the American media, with a handful of elite, traditionally liberal outlets doubling down on the fascism narrative, leaning into their (white?) rage, and concluding the problem is Them, Not Us — the majority of Americans are racist, and that’s why Donald Trump will be the 47th president. But we’re also seeing a newly sober approach, at least thus far, by mainstream outlets that seem to understand they’re facing a different Trump, one who’s not only wiser to the mechanics of power but also now has a mandate from the American public, including millions of former Democratic voters.