It was said in President Johnson’s day, that he viewed the Press as hostile and once said that even if he managed to walk on water, the Press headlines the next day would be “President can’t swim.”
Of course the Democrats of my youth were more like the Republicans of today. Whereas the Democrats of today are so hard core Left that a “truth in advertising” rule would require they re-name to something like the “Socialist Fascist Party” or similar.
And to think we thought we ended the threat of Fascism with the defeat of Adolf Hitler.