In Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny his first lesson is short: Do not obey in advance.

These corporate types (and it seems that Iger at Disney is the one who made the call about the ABC settlement - they were on solid news-reporting ground but Disney, that owns ABC, doesn't want to piss off Trump) are rolling over like lap dogs, just letting him have his way before he's even in office.

This is Danegeld, plain and simple. And it never kept the Vikings away.