In the aftermath of President-elect Donald Trump’s impressive victory two weeks ago, the legacy media are doing their best half-hearted attempt at introspection and, in doing so, exposing just how much they have made themselves a hostage of the Democratic Party.

Ever since Trump emerged on the scene in 2015, legacy media outlets have made their negative coverage of him a sort of badge of honor. After he won in 2016, the media embraced their role as the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party’s resistance against Trump. The Washington Post adopted the self-important motto “Democracy dies in darkness,” CNN’s Jim Acosta turned the White House briefing room into his personal lecture hall as he railed against the great evils of the Trump administration to the president and his press secretaries, and book publishers fell over themselves to hand out contracts to regime-approved reporters and former Trump administration officials who lambasted the former president and his team.