They totally believe that — with the fake-news MSM on their side — they can not only make up their own rules as they go along, but also will not be held to those rules when they themselves break them.
The difference here is that President Trump is (a) very smart, having not come up in the MSM reality-inversion bubble, and (b) is at least as much an expert in how the MSM works and how to use it as they are.
Yes, I agree, Trump does know how to use the media...but also, he’s fighting back, something that GWB sure didn’t do. The problem for the Dems is that they haven’t realized this is a completely different ballgame.
I hope Trump pins their ears back.