One thing that liberals obsessed with process and rights based frameworks fail to understand is that it's always about power and they always underestimate bad faith actors. When authoritarians seize power, they don't care about the rules. They enact their will with limited restraint.

political media on all sides is defined by disdain for its audience. “liberal” media believes that its audience is too insular and must be confronted with opposing views. conservative media just feeds its audience propaganda slop.