Yes for the media. Except that I think that a lot of Trump voters who are still with him believe that most politicians profit from their work just like business moguls do. And They bought that a guy who supposedly knew how to play in "the swamp" might be the last best hope for fighting the supposed swamp. Because they think nothing else has worked. So to them, these are norms, they think this kind of thing with corruption and lobbyists et. al. has gone on a long time and nobody fixed it. So to them, it's norms, business as usual for most politicians, and Trump is there because you don't bring a knife to a gun fight. It's not just very low info voters that think like this, there are people who have been around a long time to feed this belief that "they" are all crooked, someone like say, Lou Dobbs. And maybe the only time this type reads a NYTimes article is when a friend sends them something on some crooked congressional lobbying deal, so bias is continually confirmed that there are no honest politicians available, or ones too inept and naive to get more than a knife to fight with.

Cherry picking for bias confirmation has always been a problem and it is just rapidly increasing by leaps and bounds. I see that as more of a problem. It's almost like there are two major groups of voters: those who believe there's a swamp of crooked pols running this country, and those who believe in the political parties general good faith with crooks here and there.

I think this definitely goes across the spectrum, for the people sending Freedom Caucus members to Congress as well as those from the other side sending Liz Warren types, they think the norm is a crooked system.

Of course I do not buy it. But am sympathetic because I know well how the ghosts of Tammany Hall still run rampant in Albany and NYC government and how the very same Trump used that for decades previous. Not to mention: he also has long experience pre-political races playing the pop culture p.r. machine, not just "The Apprentice" but news tabloids and talk radio.