President Joe Biden is finishing what former President Donald J. Trump energetically began when the brash New Yorker lashed his former cheerleaders turned mean girls in the news media.  The perpetually pugnacious politician denounced the ink stained class as the “enemy” of the people.” Now, it appears, the people — across the political spectrum — emphatically agree.

A new poll released, last week, by Gallup reveals that the public’s “confidence ratings for newspapers and TV news have never been as low as they are.”  Only an abysmal 16% of U.S. adults now say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers and 11% in television news. Even Democrats, who lived in a state of near delirium glued to their favorite Trump-busting cable news anchor, are souring on the opinion masquerading as self serious televised news recitals.  Gallup reports that Democrats trust the media less now than they did during the thrilling witch hunt years.

Biden may not share Trump’s dark view of the fourth estate, given the fact that the 79-year-old amateur cyclist often escapes for long stretches to his Delaware estate.  Never the less, after five decades on the national stage, there is a tender poetry to the synchronicity of Biden’s reputation imploding alongside the media that worked overtime to inflate it. With the help of his allies in Washington’s newsrooms, Biden may have finally united post-Trump America. Pop!