FWIW, I read what you wrote and read it as you intended.

Sadly, the default posture of the punditry is to respond to Trump, to play on his terms, not to respond to what the rest of us live and see daily. They and their content consumers can't see the forest for the trees.
Have we hit bottom yet? This whole dynamic does not leave me feeling optimistic.

They're just living day to day, trying to keep the bully in the White House from taking aim at them.
Which is why, IMO, many of them are happy to see the Epstein thing not fade. They see his destruction as their salvation and importantly the Epstein issue does NOT have their fingerprints on it.

You lost him at “read.”

They all bend the knee eventually if they need or want to stay in the party. It's pretty gross.

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We live in the age of the empowered narcissistic sociopath oligarch.