What's remarkable about the unbridled vitriol directed at working journalists like Jim Acosta is not that it exists — a kind of a Two Minutes Hate towards the media has been a feature of Trump rallies for more than three years — but that it's getting worse, with the beaming approval of the American president who continues to call reporters "enemies of the American people" and even boasted to the publisher of the New York Times that other despots have picked up the phrase. It's instructive that in 2011 — when an assassin wounded Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords and killed six others — people on the right toned down angry rhetoric (for a time) but Trump and his minions cranked up the volume even after five people were gunned down in an Annapolis newsroom.