There may be some truth to that, hovey, but here's my concern. Trump was chosen by one of our two major political parties to represent its interests in the campaign, and he won. Despite the fact that he lies openly and constantly and foments, intentionally or not, the growth of right wing hate groups, he continues to have the support of nearly every major player in his party. I heard the results of a study today (on NPR) that of the people who voted for him in either a primary or the general, well over 90% would vote for him again. Liberals are often castigated for failing to understand Trump voters and why they voted for him, and they are warned that until they do, they will continue to lose elections.
Well, it may be that Trump has no policy objectives, only impulses, and that he only serves his own ego. But he has shown from the start a plan to create in the American public a belief that the news we receive through all but a few sources is fake and cannot be believed. He has been methodical about that. You say this is harmless and that it may even be having a revitalizing effect on the press. But it appears, at least, that this distrust is shared by those who continue to support him--those same people liberals seem unable to understand. Even assuming that the press is being revitalized (and I disagree with that), what good is a revitalized press if the public refuses to to believe what it publishes? If that happens, then Justice Holmes' famous words that "the best test of truth is the power of thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market" is just more fake news.
I don't know--something like that.
