Compliance and Cowardice

Everyone in a position to fight against Trump's war on democracy is caving in.

It started with MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Long established as the “insider” morning show on cable news, it had functioned for the last four years as an anti-Trump gathering place. Editorializing from the hosts decrying his corrosive effects on democracy and two-party politics, news stories covering the varied criminal investigations, lawsuits, and trials, an…