Former New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan this week shamed her one-time employer for its coverage of the 2024 presidential election. Writing on her Substack page, Sullivan picked apart the Times’ widely criticized decision to frame a story about former President Donald Trump openly espousing racist rhetoric as simply being about his “long-held fascination with genes.” As Sullivan put it, the Times’ headline takes “hate-filled trope and treats it like some sort of lofty intellectual interest,” as though Trump were really some acclaimed genetic biologist rather than a former game sho…