Stephan:   In my view Joy Reid is one of the more intelligent commentators on cable news. I watch a lot of cable news because the signal to noise ratio is so bad. You've probably noticed  it is mostly repetitive noise with just a little news. Basically two stories a day.  But Reid is different and I pay attention to what she says. And what she is saying in this essay is something that really has alarmed me. I can already see the "normalization" she is talking about happening. Just to take one thread of the weave you would think that the conflict of interest crisis being created by the incoming President would have provoked a Constitutional crisis. We have just elected a man who a few days ago paid $25 million to settle a lawsuit over massive educational fraud. Stealing people's dreams as well as their money. Count the stories you have already  heard or read involving using the office of the President to advance personal business interests. Do you ever remember hearing or reading such stories before?  It is almost surreal, you and I are going to be pay his company over a million tax payer dollars to house and office the Secret service who are protecting his building.  It just goes on and on and on. And the media is already accommodating for it and "normalizing" it. Joy Reid is correct; I just wonder if Americans can hear what she is saying; frankly I just don't know.