Will Bunch expresses what I’ve been thinking since Trump was elected. American democracy is under attack from within. The fascists who yearn for an authoritarian government in the media are promoting it, and the media who supposedly don’t support it fail to recognize it. They are busy trying to follow the political playbook of the 20th century.
The flip side of this is “Gell-Mann amnesia” — the opinion that the popular news reports about your professional field are full of shit, but that the reports about everyone else’s fields are probably pretty much correct.