Read it again, FRiends
Taibbi was never any fan of Trump, but he states quite clearly — numerous times— he’s frightened by the coup being enacted against a legitimately elected POTUS.
He calls out the “shadow government” of “spooks” currently attempting to overthrow our electoral system.
He’s saying the spooks are setting a new precedent in the US which is common in 3rd world countries— election by coup.
He says clearly a “bad president” —Taibbi’s opinion of Trump— is preferable to rule by the “shadow government” with the complicity of media “dolts like Jim Acosta.”
That’s what I took away, too. You expressed the summary and conclusions very well.
I think Taibbi has described our possible (probable?) national descent into Hell in a new, more plausible, and far more frightening way.