“Without the Establishment media, academia, and Hollywood, the Left has nothing.”
They also, unfortunately, have much of the country’s business community...witness Target, Amazon, Kellog, Progressive Insurance etc. At present, the MSM is holding fast and shows no capacity for objectivity even though there is some evidence that people are no longer buying what they are selling. Same is true of Hollywood and education. But there is a way to go before any of those leftist institutions can be trusted to foster good will, virtue, common values and cooperation.