THINK OF THE PRESS AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE OPERATION AIMED AT NORMAL AMERICANS AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG: When media call Kamala Harris ‘centrist,’ it’s no wonder people hate the press.

This is important as much for what it says about the establishment media as for what it says about Harris. One major reason President Trump taps into the anger of so many “ordinary Americans,” including with his attacks on the media as the “enemy of the people,” is that the media have completely and rightly lost the public’s trust through their abandonment of objectivity in favor of leftist cheerleading. People resent it when they know they are being manipulated.

Much of the manipulation comes in the form of political labeling in supposedly “straight news” stories. The supposed “moderation” of Harris is a perfect case in point. . . .

The two best-established ranking systems for broad-based ideology — as opposed to single-subject rankings such as those for pro-abortion rights or anti-abortion groups, anti-government-spending groups, or whatever — are from the American Conservative Union on the right and Americans for Democratic Action on the left. The ACU gives Harris a puny lifetime rating of 3 (with 0 being far Left and 100 being far Right). The ADA reports that except when she has missed votes altogether, Harris has a perfect liberal rating.

To the press, “moderate” just means having the background and mannerisms of the educated professional class. As long as you count as One Of Us, you’re a moderate, regardless of views. The views of a majority of Americans, on the other hand, are routinely called “extreme.” And deplorable.