The legacy media have justifiably lost much of their former credibility in recent years for many legitimate reasons. Former President Donald Trump famously branded them “ enemies of the people .” Bestselling author and podcaster Michael Malice went a step further: “The battle is won when the average American regards a corporate journalist exactly as they regard a tobacco executive.”

Language like this may offend the sensibilities of some, but there is no doubt that these so-called journalists have now surpassed the point of failing to do their jobs and have ventured into something much more nefarious.

Our current press cut their teeth selling needless war to the people and promoting baseless Democratic Party propaganda , and seeing that they got away with it with their employment intact, they now feel completely comfortable setting their crosshairs on anything and everything that offends coastal elites or criticizes their beloved Democrats. You may see a pattern as to who and what the legacy media choose to attack or defend.

The media have overwhelmingly defended the Biden administration’s decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine, the use of which the White House called a " war crime " just last year. Cluster munitions have been shown to have a failure rate between 10% and 40% in recent global conflicts, meaning innocent civilians will almost certainly be killed as a result of President Joe Biden’s decision.

After the fall of Roe v. Wade, several conservative states all but banned abortion. CNN decided to mourn the fact that 10,000 Texans were born alive instead of being aborted.

Legacy journalists spent the better part of last weekend demanding that their audiences avoid seeing the new film Sound of Freedom , which highlights the evils of child sex trafficking. The media accused the film of being "far right" and promoting "QAnon." Surely most journalists couldn’t even tell you what QAnon means, but it is illuminating watching our esteemed media class go to war against what should be an objectively positive message with which everyone agrees.

Sure, legacy media supports death and destruction, but they have assured us that they are our moral betters. Shall we check in on the collective moral compass of corporate media? Along with covering up for more than a few sexual predators over the years, journalists have decided that there is simply no level of depravity that cannot be defended if the perpetrator has the all-important "D" next to his or her name.

The women of The View have no problem with Biden refusing to acknowledge the existence of his own grandchild. When a transgender mass shooter killed children at a Nashville, Tennessee, Christian school in March, media figures could not muster a single ounce of curiosity regarding the contents of the killer’s manifesto.

Time and time again, legacy media promote war over peace, death over life, propaganda over truth, and oppression over liberty. They have chosen a side, and quite frankly, Donald Trump and Michael Malice may not have gone far enough. If regime-aligned journalists are not the enemy, they have a funny way of showing it.

Brady Leonard ( @bradyleonard ) is a musician, political strategist, and host of The No Gimmicks Podcast .