Like, I started paying attention in 2015, and while trust was low, and the coverage of 2016 was subject to a lot of criticism, but there was (seemingly) some really honorable journalism being done in Trump 1 and the media "mea culpas" to counterbalance the failures of 2016. Nothing like that today.

Thats the oldest part of the cohort. If you've only paid attention the last year or 2, you've only really known the national press as collaborators with the people who want to kill you or your friends and family.

Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936

Right: 1936 electoral map

Probably when they receive subpoenas from House Investigations Committee Chairwoman AOC requesting their appearance at a House hearing on, "University complicity in authoritarianism"

3/ "Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,' said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law."

2/ "Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats 'amounts to murder,' said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign."