And no amount of tit for tat, or spitting matches could have, or will, help.
The newsmedia is far more powerful than the President and his party. They have newspapers, mags, TV, Hollywood, music, education, the Internet, and its global now.
If they want to destroy you, your reputation, your career, your policies, they will, its a 24/7/365 policial campaign.
And a President cannot run the same campaign, logistically, financially or personally.
Only time will do the trick, for now its every man for himself.
Most liberal MSM are bullies that will fold like a cheap card table when challenged. Someone has to go over the boards and “drop the gloves”