heh heh
A lot of stuff is just predictable while ignoring the specifics of each candidate. Like the GOP front-runner benefiting from a bandwagon and unity effect once the primary season matures. Or the MSM circling the wagons for the Dem is another. Get over one’s emotional involvement and a lot more stuff is predictable!
Your supposition that the Media will be able to hold ranks and uniformly poo-poo Trump's PIAPS gambits is shaky.
The "media hero" meme grafted on these Media children in their indoctrination centers will be a strong temptation for them to overcome.
After all, "old washed-up Chris Matthews nailed Trump, didn't he?".
Trump may be as crafty as a Lakota Sioux decoy at a surround.