” My fear is that the opposition Trump has faced so far, rather disjointed and half-hearted attacks until recently, is nothing like what he will face in the general when he goes against a united Democrat party/MSM machine.”
Rest assured in the fact that the American people in poll after poll rank the trustworthiness of the media lower than rattlesnakes, used car salesmen and politicians. The seditious media simply doesn’t have the power of persuasion it had 50 years ago. It’s a new ballgame.
It's hard to persuade people who don't watch at all. Who's the anchor on the CBS evening news? I couldn't pick them out of a lineup. No idea. All the "big" cable news channels combined don't have the reach of the lowest rated network newscast thirty years ago. Trump doesn't need them and he knows it, but they need him. For ratings. That's why liberals like Anderson Cooper throw him nothing but softball questions. They know he holds grudges (Fox News) and they want him to come back on. Their careers depend on it!
This dynamic will hold all the way to election day and beyond. Once internal polling shows that he's going to win they're going to be sucking up to him hoping for exclusive access to the next POTUS. Trump is playing them better than Reagan did, and that's saying a lot.