Complying in advance is how we get fascist government.
That is the first lesson in "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the 20th Century" by Prof. Snyder
This is sign that our media completely capitulated and won't even try to fight to preserve our democracy.
Yeah, after reading his books I now scheduled recurring donations for ProPublica, NPR and also an subscribed to a local news paper that still does some real journalism.