The ownership of these media outlets must have decided that the dictatorship is inevitable, and that the only sane business strategy is to play nice to stay un-defenestrated. MSNBC (which is being spun off from real NBC) is one of the few who don’t seem to pull punches about what’s going on.

Exactly. Somehow even more vicious than Fox doing it out in the open. They criticize Trump but then treat him and his regime members like serious people. They went after Biden like vicious dogs but nada about Trump’s very obvious dementia during his campaign.