As well it should. But its pity act is pathetic. The media wasn’t destroyed by a ‘crisis of trust’ created by Trump’s attacks, but by its decision to become a purely partisan leftist agitprop machine whose agenda even the dumbest apolitical person could hardly fail to miss.

The media (like most leftist captured institutions) acted as if it could simply assert that its political positions, no matter how insane, were now the new cultural norms and only crazies and bigots wouldn’t accept them. The media’s message (like that of academia and the entertainment industry) is that it’s normal, and anyone who doesn’t agree with it has something wrong them.

Political landslides have a way of crushing assertions like that, but the media will bounce back, regain its confidence and go back to vocally insisting that Dr. Seuss needs to be censored but that removing graphic LGBTQ porn from school libraries is book banning, and that every illegal alien migrant has the taxpayer-funded right to the taxpayer-funded gender of his/her/its choice.