We've been conditioned to expect this behavior from him as normal. We shouldn't.
(And by "we", I mean the greater American people, not necessarily just the people here at DU with heightened awareness.)
If you stop and think about it, if Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton were to fire off just a single tweet like the multiple ranting tweets we get from the Madman on a daily basis, we'd all be scratching our heads. It would be major news on every network.
If Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, as President, were to wake up one morning and start attacking the media by calling it "Fake News", or calling some political adversary by some infantile nickname we'd all be seriously questioning their sanity, wondering if they've lost it, wondering if they took a hit on the head the night before.
And I don't just mean Republicans looking to gain a partisan advantage.
I mean us Democrats, too. If Obama or Clinton one day started off the morning by going after "Goofy Mitch McConnell" or claiming the media is all stacked out to get him/her, I'd legitimately be concerned for his/her well-being. I'd want to know why the sudden devolution in rhetoric.
Of course, they don't act like that, because they are rational, highly intelligent people who are calculating in their actions and decisions.
But because for the past two years nearly every single day this is the sort of behavior we can expect from Donald Trump, increasingly so many of us just write it off as "Trump being Trump" and give it a shrug or a nervous laugh.
He shouldn't be held to a different standard because this is somehow normal behavior for him. Because what's normal for him isn't normal for any rational functioning human being. And it certainly isn't normal for someone in charge of the most powerful country in the world.
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Body slamming reporters? Not normal!
Decrying every news organization who doesn't kiss your ass 100%? Not normal!
Banning cameras from the WH press briefing room? Not normal!
Smearing a news organization with a video tape that's been obtained from really shady sources? Not normal!
This whole Russia thing? Not norrmal!
This whole damn thing is not normal! 
if "we" do it, the entire Democratic party comes down on the person, en masse, like a pack of wolves, with the RW & M$M right behind, so the person is "double- and triple-teamed", and collapses under the assault. Then in the aftermath people ask "well why don't the Democrats 'hit back???!11!11!!'". 
Yet when "they" (Drumpf) do it, then they are high-fiving the utterance and each other and supporting every single idiotic, prevaricative, and craven piece of bullshit that is spouted, without fail, and with few dissenters.
