Cesca nails it.

So much for the reboot.

For several days now, I’ve wondered whether Trump could seriously moderate his tone and style in order to mitigate his rapidly disintegrating campaign. I worried that cable news, under pressure from Trump supporters wielding the repeatedly debunked “liberal media bias” myth, would adjust to a “Trump surge” narrative to retain their televised drama. They can’t possibly do that now. Though, reports are emerging on Twitter that CNN, in particular, treated Trump’s assassination threat as if it was a policy matter.

Regardless, I can’t possibly see Trump recovering from this. If the political press and Republican voters allow him to bounce back in the polls after he suggested “Second Amendment people” assassinate one or more public figures, including his opponent, then America deserves to be crushed under the awful weight of a Trump presidency. We really do. If we can’t stand up — unified — against this bad actor in the way we were unified against other despots throughout modern history, then we deserve what we get.