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🐝 BusyBusyBee 🐝's avatar

I know we’d all like to place the blame for Trump squarely at the feet of Fox, but It wasn’t JUST Fox. In 2016, CNN - and to a lesser degree MSNBC (Morning Joe especially) were just as culpable for Trump’s election as they were willing participants in the “$2 billion of free media” he received.

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I agree with most of this except to say that Trump's domination and control of the Republican party has been apparent for a very long time. It was made crystal clear when the Republicans refused to move on from him after the election and started strenuously white-washing the events of Jan 6th. A special call out to Kevin McCarthy in the one time he showed leadership by visiting Trump and virtually expressing fealty to him so shortly after these events. Too bad it was leadership in the direction of submission and moral bancrupcy.

What surprises me is that they haven't realized that Trump himself is old and a depreciating asset. My guess is his base is getting slightly smaller and his unpopularity outside his cult grows ever bigger. It is not in the party's long or even medium term interest to be attatched to this man's star and frankly I can't see how it can be any less attatched to it in the public mind.

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