President Trump is changing the norms that empower his media antagonists

" President Trump understands that the current informal-but-very-real rules of the game have allowed Mika and Joe (and the rest of the media-political world as well) free rein to savage him and his family, while he is supposed to be a gentleman and just take it while they get support for attacking him.

Can anyone argue that "pretending we are all Good Friends" when the other side doesn't works to Trump's (or conservatives') best interest?  The norms associated with it need to change.  There will be unpleasantness along the way.  President Trump is setting about it in his own way and in his own style, which almost always occasions outrage, as it did in the presidential election.  It turns out that the norms of the Beltway elite are not universal, and that a culture far larger than the media-political elite also has a voice in the end."

[American Thinker]