So strange in that as a character, he's like the caricature of a depression-era rabble rousing lefty type where the union man is god. Right out of a Ben Shahn mural, I can see Bernie as like, Sacco & Venzetti's lawyer.

Also Bernie fan behavior tis right here in the article, isn't it, the whole perfect the enemy of the good thing  In Germany this reached the absurd extreme of the Communists underestimating the Nazis as a transitory challenge while focusing on the Social Democrats—dubbed “red fascists”—as the true long-term threat to Communist triumph.

This is a great paragraph on how the fourth estate function has been neutered:

The result is the creation of a “Trump bubble” for his base to inhabit that is unrecognizable to viewers of PBS, CNN, and MSNBC and readers of The Washington Post and The New York Times. The highly critical free media not only provide no effective check on Trump’s ability to be a serial liar without political penalty; on the contrary, they provide yet another enemy around which to mobilize the grievances and resentments of his base. A free press does not have to be repressed when it can be rendered irrelevant and even exploited for political gain.

That's everything, including the disinfo ops of Putin. Trump just did it again with praising the National Enquirer going after Jeff Bezos, though things with that may not be exactly as they seem. Trump is talented at one thing, schmoozing naive journos with p.r. to create alternative reality distractive narratives, just saw you interested in that here. Just like with Soviet disinto, there's no plan, no end goal, just keep you distracted with chaos.

The Wall is something he has fixated on, it's a story he needs to defend for some reason. The Wall = Rosebud?

Hope you don't mind the bouncing around allover the place the thoughts, that's the effect these kind of articles have on me: my neurons start firing allover the place.