The power of Progressives, for the last 60, and arguably, the last 100 years, has been its takeover of the mass media of the nation.
The ability to set the narrative, to define scandal, to determine for the nation's politicians what is good and what is evil, is broken when there are alternative sources and alternative media.
The Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Associated Press were and are at the heart of the Progressive media.
They no longer control the flow of information in the United States and much of the world.
They will do anything they can to regain that control.