What the artcile shows is how easily manipulated the core Biden supporters are and always were, including how Alter can still manipulate them.
The “middle” of the Democratic party cannot trust anyone in the media whom they expect they can trust. They long ago became minds captured by that media.
It’s not about trust it’s about faith. It’s like sitting in church and trying to reconcile what the guy in the robes is saying with your own knowledge and experience. At some point you just decide that the guy in the robes is right and you have to have faith so you can stop thinking about it and just go on doing what you would be doing either way.