3.) @jackshafer and others have rightly pointed out that the press shouldn't expect to be loved. It never has been, really.
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4.) So forget "media" (a term Tom Stoppard once wrote sounds like a convention of spiritualists). Focus on "mainstream."
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5.) In decades past the right purported to represent the mainstream. Hence "silent majority" and "moral majority." No more!
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6.) Now the right proudly defines itself in opposition to the majority, presumably because it's been corrupted by diversity.
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7.) Hence "mainstream" becomes a term of derision. Surely no political movement that takes this view of the majority has much of a future.
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Note how you jumped from "mainstream" to "majority" and back? Not sure your logic holds.
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You dispute that "mainstream" and "majority" get at the same idea?
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Why would Trump try so hard to pretend he had a big inauguration if he didn't intend to pretend he had a majority? Or EC win?
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Trump's claim to an electoral majority is based on delegitimization of an imaginary mass of undocumented voters.
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Nevertheless, he claims it. So it is false to claim his attack on "mainstream" is an attack on claim to be "majority."
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He is attacking what they see as "false majority" thus mainstream.
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