An essential part of the news media’s job is to hold those with privilege and power accountable. The press in America are supposed to have a professionally adversarial relationship with politicians. But, in the era of President Trump, some big news organizations and high-profile commentators have slid into the confused notion that their role is to be the vanguard of a “Resistance” to the duly elected executive.

The result, aside from the damage their work is causing to the fabric of our democracy, is bad journalism. And this feeds the argument that the media form “the opposition party.”