It's hard to avoid becoming Sweeney pilled, at least so far as the NYT is concerned. Maybe they don't genuinely like Trump and want him to win, but they very obviously detest Democrats and want them to lose.

American liberals have a strong current of self-hatred and self-doubt about whether they count as real Americans; I think the NYT's frequent institutional reluctance to speak from any clear moral or intellectual place is one expression of this, which appears in many other contexts too