C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
āFox News figures are willing to propagandize on President Trumpās behalf on pretty much every horror that he throws our way. Do Fox personalities back Trump when he sells out our allies in tandem with murderous tyrant Vladimir Putin? Yes, indeed. Do they support Trump when he tries to purge federal workers by the thousands to corruptly replace them with loyalists? Enthusiastically. Do they stick with Trump when he declares himself above the law, explicitly using the language of world-historical dictators to do so? Without reservations.
But it turns out there are limits. One topic Fox personalities are not quite as willing to run interference for Trump on is the economy. And with signs mounting that Trumpās economy is hitting the skids, they are beginning to sound the alarm.
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Trumpās overall political project is heavily dependent on an enormous network of propagandists and other pliant institutional players to sustain itself. Take Muskās DOGE: Again and again, DOGEās revelations of āwasteā and āfraudā have themselves proven fraudulent to the point of buffoonery. It requires an immense roar of propaganda from right-wing media and dozens of GOP lawmakers, all declaring falsely that DOGE really is finding all kinds of smoking guns, to keep alive the fiction that itās producing dramatic results.
This is why Fox turning on Trumpās economy could be so debilitating over time. Perceptions of Trumpās economic prowess are the scaffolding that holds up the rest of the edifice. If the public continues to sour on his economic performance, the deep cuts to government will look less about efficiency and instead appear maliciously, dangerously incompetent. The mass deportations will look less like the protecting of U.S. workers from unskilled foreign labor competition and more like unchecked ethnonationalist cruelty. And Trumpās celebrations of his own impunity wonāt come across as the mere rhetorical trash-talking of the strongman who was needed to whip the economy into line. Instead, theyāll sound like what they truly areāthe rantings of a genuine wannabe dictator.ā
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And Trump will have only himself to blame when he destroys President Biden's strong, growing economy and historic low unemployment.
But it turns out there are limits. One topic Fox personalities are not quite as willing to run interference for Trump on is the economy. And with signs mounting that Trumpās economy is hitting the skids, they are beginning to sound the alarm.
[ā¦]
Trumpās overall political project is heavily dependent on an enormous network of propagandists and other pliant institutional players to sustain itself. Take Muskās DOGE: Again and again, DOGEās revelations of āwasteā and āfraudā have themselves proven fraudulent to the point of buffoonery. It requires an immense roar of propaganda from right-wing media and dozens of GOP lawmakers, all declaring falsely that DOGE really is finding all kinds of smoking guns, to keep alive the fiction that itās producing dramatic results.
This is why Fox turning on Trumpās economy could be so debilitating over time. Perceptions of Trumpās economic prowess are the scaffolding that holds up the rest of the edifice. If the public continues to sour on his economic performance, the deep cuts to government will look less about efficiency and instead appear maliciously, dangerously incompetent. The mass deportations will look less like the protecting of U.S. workers from unskilled foreign labor competition and more like unchecked ethnonationalist cruelty. And Trumpās celebrations of his own impunity wonāt come across as the mere rhetorical trash-talking of the strongman who was needed to whip the economy into line. Instead, theyāll sound like what they truly areāthe rantings of a genuine wannabe dictator.ā
Fox News Suddenly Starts Panicking About Trumpās Economy: āWeakening!ā
Yes, theyāre still blaming Joe Biden, but the talking heads at Fox are getting awfully nervous that President Trump might be on the verge of sending the economy into a tailspin.
newrepublic.com
And Trump will have only himself to blame when he destroys President Biden's strong, growing economy and historic low unemployment.
