It is bizarre how for so many that history just never happened. Not just the president but the press. At least the president was something of a man of "nuance", always trying to take positions somewhere in the middle. Though I do recall it was a somewhat awkward process as he came around to making increasingly stronger stands against his successor.

Of course the press (not to mention twitter mob) just toggled from the extreme on one side to the other.

It's not a threat to the national security of a nation surrounded by two oceans, and in possession of six thousand nuclear bombs, but it's a threat to some national political ambitions.

Whether those ambitions are worth pursuing is another matter entirely.