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In reply to the discussion: From Substack: Why does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won? [View all]
chowder66
(11,517 posts)5. The sane-washing and the both-siderism of most media didn't help either.
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From Substack: Why does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won? [View all]
kerry-is-my-prez
Nov 2024
OP
Flooding the news zones with bullshit until even the NYT and WaPo start repeating it.
erronis
Nov 2024
#2
It's bad enough, but the mainstream media we try to rely on pick up what they say and repeats it verbatim
Walleye
Nov 2024
#3
Trump lost in 2020 because he was a dumpster fire, but COVID was still affecting the US through 2022
haele
Nov 2024
#63
I suspect many people WANT a rude, loud, blathering, large man for President.
raging moderate
Nov 2024
#83
Of course there are multiple reasons, but right wing media does what it does, and it works well.
Trust_Reality
Nov 2024
#30
Yup....and their racist sexist crap of not voting for a woman...regardless of the pain it will cause
PortTack
Nov 2024
#23
The post-birth abortion bullshit and gender reassignment surgery at schools sealed my agreement with you.
Pacifist Patriot
Nov 2024
#24
I've been saying this since the day after the election. The right wing media's lies, disinformation, and misinformation
Martin68
Nov 2024
#20
Agreed, and the MSM, Cable, press etc. are/were complicit as they didn't clearly...
brush
Nov 2024
#29
MAGA has a better amplification network and they spent 20 years developing it, it doesn't matter if Trump wears a narrow
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#52
I'm old enough to remember when Karl Rove said. "We create our own reality." But I'm not sure our path should include,,
surfered
Nov 2024
#61
Left talk radio / alternative media won't work because Democrats don't believe there is a grand conspiracy to hide the..
Fish700
Nov 2024
#77
It has worked, and continues to work at MSNBC, Mike Malloy, Democracy Now, KTNF in MN, etc.
keep_left
Nov 2024
#79
To get people to fucking listen, will need to be entertaining FIRST. Few will tune in to hear someone read the newspaper
SoFlaBro
Nov 2024
#98
Well, Air America had some pretty entertaining shows, but they went bankrupt anyway.
keep_left
Nov 2024
#105
Fuckstain Rush Limpdong was on multiple AM stations in the same fucking market with a couple hundred listeners.
SoFlaBro
Nov 2024
#106
Yep. Ask Randi Rhodes. Her #1 show was cancelled by the network for Limbaugh's.
keep_left
Nov 2024
#108
The working class is not the same as the working poor. One of those is never talked about.
Autumn
Nov 2024
#71
Yes, conservative control of news and successful voter suppression. Voter suppression isn't mentioned in the, why
ShazamIam
Nov 2024
#86
Exactly. Rs weren't brainwashed in a vacuum, it was years of Fox and rw media pounding propaganda into their heads.
Pepsidog
Nov 2024
#88
Yes. And the task escalated from defeating a candidate to defeating Russian, Chinese, Iranian and far right disinfo
mahina
Nov 2024
#101
The question would then be: why do so many Americans choose to consume crappy right wing media?
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2024
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