I used to think that. But it has been going on long enough that most of the congress now in DC got elected KNOWING the media was a Dem front group.
They do nothing to fight back because they are simply acting as the easy let down for the base. They show minor gripes giving some people hope that the Dems are not ruling as kings and some hope to rein them in. Then they cave in and another little piece of hope is lost. Rinse repeat.
It is incrementalism at it’s finest. The problem is the right wing base is locked into a case of category error. We collectively have so poorly defined the actual problem that we cannot hope to fix it.
Well put. That is pretty much what I think but have never been able to elaborate.