That half of the argument is pretty much the whole of the argument

Interesting information from Donald Trump and America’s Post-constitutional Politics by Fred Siegel.

Siegel's argument is something along the lines of "the plutocrats win."

The winners in Obama’s America, where the stock market has doubled even as wages have stagnated, have been the big guys—big business, big labor, big government. Unelected bureaucrats have never had it so good. The Affordable Care Act, for instance, created 159 new boards, commissions, or programs. Elected officials more and more resemble these job-for-life bureaucrats, likelier to die in office than to be fired (or voted out) for cause. In 2014, 95 percent of sitting members of the House of Representatives won reelection, according to the Center for Responsive Politics; most of those who left went to work as lobbyists or political operatives. Washington, D.C. recently passed Silicon Valley as the richest region in the U.S.: seven of the nation’s ten wealthiest counties are in the D.C metro area. Not incidentally, Washington now has the highest rate of fine-wine consumption in the United States.

But here is the information that caught my eye.

In this context, liberal complaints that the “mainstream media” have given Trump extensive free coverage don’t add up to much. In truth, there has been no such thing as a “mainstream” press since 2008, when, in a manifestation of the country’s political polarization, much of the media enlisted in the Obama campaign. The presidents of CBS and NBC have siblings on Obama’s national security staff who helped orchestrate the catastrophe at Benghazi. Key members of the White House staff are married to prominent national reporters for ABC and CNN. The morning news at CNN is anchored by Chris Cuomo, son of former New York governor Mario Cuomo and brother of current New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who has considered a presidential run. George Stephanopoulos, the anchor for ABC’s Sunday morning show, is a former senior advisor to President Clinton and maintains a connection to the Clinton Foundation.

I have seen this type of information in bits and pieces before but nothing quite as extensive as this. And I am not sure that even this list is complete. I think there are more examples of the marriage between the Democratic Party and Media.

The question for me is whether there is a comparable listing on the other side of the aisle. Are there mainstream media figures married to members of the Republican Party? Granted, the mainstream media is overwhelmingly Democrat, but still, it is possible. Even the average Fox and Wall Street Journal reporter leans Democrat (as opposed to their editorial boards).

I am sure there must be some comparable examples of leading Republicans married to mainstream conservative reporters, but I can't think of any.

We have one half of an argument with no voice for the other half but I suspect this is an instance where that one half of the argument is pretty much the whole of the argument.