Frankly it's amazing that conservatives of any stripe win at all. The media dominance that so define the debates seems near monopolistic, and academia has been churning out good little socialist drones for decades now. And democracy is for all practical purposes dead, having been replaced by worship of the state - EVERYTHING is political, all manner of petty disputes to be made a federal case. This was the plan, not an aberration.
Journalism as we know it is cynical about everyone except journalism - and those who agree with journalists. That is a sufficient condition for journalism to be socialistic.