It is a deliberate assault on democracy by Trump’s right-wing MAGA movement, a movement that finds democracy inconvenient in its quest for total, unchecked power. Trump’s MAGA movement is not just doing politics wrong. It is just as true that the right way to do politics is not the Trump MAGA way — a way that Kirk monetised to contribute to Trump’s power. Trump’s MAGA movement is not debating the Left. By walking past the truth of Trump’s new reality, the mainstream media has helped legitimise and empower the Trump MAGA movement’s political rise.