Being an "easy target" is exactly how Trump has beat out his opposition and fueled the ever-growing criticism against the left. He is a big believer in the phrase, "all publicity is good publicity". I'm not completely sold on that idea in principle, but he knows how to counter-conduct the media. The very fact that he's said one taboo thing after another over and over while still surviving on the political front serves as its own meme on the true effectiveness of criticism: it only works if you profess to an accommodation of its premise.
That worked in the primary, in a party where the bulk of the voters know the press is full of lying biased liberal hacks. I'm not sure you should assume it will work in a general election full of independents and low information voters.
