Beware the Pundit-Brained Version of the Democratic Convention

Frida Ghitis: Donald Trump's 2016 debate jab about Rosie O'Donnell is one of thousands of ephemeral, pointless, and mean Trump utterances.

She says D.C. elites are coming to Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention .

Ghitis says they're coming to attend corporate-sponsored happy hours , eat free meals together at CNN Grill .

Frida Ghitis : The idea that the media are dyed-in-the-wool liberals has become the orthodoxy.

Ghitis says the Beltway media are conservative in the most traditional, unideological sense of the word.

She says the media is clinging to a status quo that has not matched our reality since Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 and the Tea Party emerged as the energized manifestation of Ronald Reagan’s 1980s fever dreams.

She asks: The media are actively trying to direct chaos or uncertainty because chaos and uncertainty would create something new or interesting to them.

It's impossible to know every flaw or fault this chattering class will find in a convention that does not feature a lineup of Kid Rock or Hulk Hogan .

But you can bet there will be pearl-clutching about how Democrats are not reaching for a middle that is actually center-left, how clear articulations of the threats Trump poses to democracy constitute dangerous political rhetoric.