It's Worse Than They Think

 Sorry, but people on the left still seem to be too shell-shocked to face reality.  Case in point, this article today, from Daily Kos:

"The U.S. media are still flummoxed by the question of how to cover Donald Trump’s actions, even a full year after his ejection from the Oval Office. That ambivalence is understandable; never before in the history of this country has someone so thoroughly brazen and insouciant in his raw criminality occupied a position now enjoyed by Trump, whose every utterance now smacks of outright, seditious intent. Trump is indeed an anomaly they have never dealt with, with his millions of supporters comprising an imposing swath of the American electorate."

The media is not "flummoxed," they are willing collaborators.  Since Ronald Reagan made it possible for the mainstream press in this country to be purchased lock stock and barrel by huge corporations, it has become nothing but one more tool, like the Republican party, to force the will of rich sociopaths on the country.  It is what they are paid to do, not the result of their not understanding what is going on.

"There seems to be a consensus among major media outlets that Trump continues to represent a lethal threat to our democracy, but the magnitude of that threat is seen as blunted by the fact that Trump is out of office and therefore unable to inflict immediate harm"

Yeah, there is " a consensus among major media outlets that Trump continues to represent a lethal threat to our democracy;" anyone with a grain of sense can see that.  The rest of that sentence is dead wrong.  Telling the truth is not "blunted" because they think there is no immediate harm; it is suppressed because that is what the mainstream press is paid to do.  The press are Trump's collaborators, not his dupes.  That should be obvious, but for God knows what reason, it's not.

Update:  And from the New York Times:

“I actually think the American public is dramatically underplaying how significant and dangerous this is,” he said, “because we cannot process the basic truth of what we are learning about President Trump’s efforts—which is we’ve never had a president before who fundamentally placed his own personal interests above the nation’s.”

The "we" this jerk is talking about is not the American public, but the American press, and it is not that they cannot process the basic truth, it is because they will not.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."-  Upton Sinclair