One day - one day - you have to think that the media complex of this country will learn how their methodology is leading to their own demise. Today is not that day, however. Instead, it is running plays from the same old playbook that has been doing little more than delivering diminishing returns. 

It is clear that the driving force in the press is holding President Trump accountable, but the problem is that they need first to manufacture most of his offenses. The latest example of this arrives via Axios, which begins with the intention of showing how authoritarian President Trump has been in regards to his “political enemies”: 

The arrests and charges of elected Democrats have led party leaders to warn the president is driving democracy to the edge. But the shows of force, including during anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles last week, have also given Trump's MAGA base and advisers exactly what they wanted.

You have to enjoy this recurring theme in the press; whenever incidents arise that defy “peaceful” narratives, they are contorted into “events that play into the hands of the ardents who made such claims.” Or, to put it in accurate fashion, “evidence that shows they were correct.” Yeah, when you have items that manage to fit into what had been called conspiracy theories, that is commonly known as proof.

The challenge Axios runs into here is that they intended to illustrate Trump’s attacks on the Democrats by listing off the various names of legislators or others who were on the receiving end of his legal actions. The problem: They all had ample reasons for facing detainment. Therefore, reporter Natalie Daher and graphics designer Kavya Bahara had to plunge into the thesaurus in order to relabel the transgressions.

First off, you see they have Alex Padilla listed, although he never was arrested for barnstorming the Kristi Noem presser last week. So, this list involves those “Arrested, charged, or removed.” Padilla was “forcibly removed from a press conference,” with little in the way of justification. He merely ”had been trying to ask a question,” not rushing towards the podium and then battling security.

The other examples lead to amusing summations that reinterpret what took place.

This is so risibly pathetic that you have to wonder how any editor would allow such a transparently slanted approach to the subject – that is, until you grasp the editors are just as partisan as their staffers. What Axios fails at here is that they are straining to indict President Trump for some fashion of wrongdoing, but in order to arrive at their conclusion, the approach required is that Democrats cannot do anything worthy of punishment.

This revisionist application of standards has been the stance of the press for months. Cutting government waste is unethical; negotiating trade deals is aggressive; pulling down tariffs the press screamed about is not proper but a sign of weakness; preventing riots and looting is a First Amendment violation, and on it goes. 

Now, charging Democrats for the crimes they commit is itself a mortal crime, according to those who have said, "No one is above the law," like a mantra. And they wonder why people have stopped listening.

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