I think it all changed under Obama.

Being a community organizer, the way you get things done is create a problem and then rally support to solve it. You shift the narrative around accomplish your goals. He as fluent and well spoken with a certain nuance that many fell for. He was as the perfect Manchurian candidate.

He was the pivot point of recent times. The media felt necessary to protect and promote whim at all cost and they did.

“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.” ― Ronald Reagan