No one but no one is more expert at talking in the precise tone & cadence, using all the right buzz words, to please the ears of an elite center-left audience. He's a master at it. They'll never let him go.
It is worth thinking about why Fareed Zakaria was allowed to keep his highly-paid media sinecures despite committing serial plagiarism while Claudine Gay was forced out of hers over paraphrasing common concepts in her dissertation. Race, gender, AND partisanship all played a role in their outcomes.