The 2016 election broke certain members of the media, particularly the progressive culture warriors.

President Trump is such a repudiation of their worldview, and such a brutal contrast to their deeply held beliefs, that they can barely comprehend he won, let alone accept he did it legitimately. Rather than confront difficult realities — that they are not the dominating political force in this country and that a significant percentage of the electorate rejects their ideals — some progressive media types have locked themselves away in loops, theorizing ad infinitum about all-powerful bogeymen and far-reaching foreign conspiracies. Many fantasize about the one weird trick to remove Trump from office.