Your labeling the majority of the American electorate who opted to dump the Trump at their first opportunity "Nazis" exposes your alienation from America and its democratic tradition.
Meanwhile, the ugly struggle between traditional conservatives and the weird worshipers of one dude persists within the GOP. The weird worshipers of one dude vilify their fellow Republicans for their consistently espousing a political philosophy rather than venerating a failed casino operator and faded reality tv performer.
That's deranged.
Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg:
Fox host Tucker Carlson’s streaming special “Patriot Purge.” It’s a perfect example of propaganda that weaves half-truths into a whole lie.
“Patriot Purge” insinuates that the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol might have been a “false flag operation,” orchestrated by the FBI or the "Deep State"...
This dangerous nonsense was the last straw for me (and Steve Hayes).
[O]ne of my chief frustrations with Fox, and with cable news generally, is what you might call manufactured consensus.
Liberals are expected to be loyal Democrats and to criticize Republicans, and vice versa for conservatives... But here’s the real problem. Opinion journalists are treated as interchangeable with partisan flacks who are literally paid to defend a party and its positions.
Over time, if you’re not careful, it’s easy to internalize the idea that your job as an opinion journalist is to carry water for your party, at least on TV. The last thing a producer wants is some pundit offering nuanced criticism of his own side. Everything has to be a fight between the extremes...
But Trump’s ascendency made things much worse at Fox. Because Trump is a thin-skinned narcissist, he has no tolerance for criticism, and neither do his very vocal fans among the viewers and the punditocracy...
Traditionally, conservatives — including conservative politicians — influence presidents by praising them when they make the right decisions and criticizing them when they don’t. Trump was impervious to criticism, and over time, many conservatives stopped offering it and Fox stopped providing opportunities to present any kind of critique...
I’ve talked to scores of elected Republicans and conservative pundits, with opinions ranging from principled disagreement to outright contempt for Trump. But good luck getting many of them to say it publicly. The message, amplified constantly by Trump and his boosters, is that all “true” conservatives love Trump in every regard.
In the wake of the Jan. 6 riot, it became routine for Trump partisans to claim that criticism of his effort to steal the election amounted to an insult to everyone who voted for Trump, as if 74 million people voted for the riot and the lies that led to it.
That’s the propagandistic mindset behind that new “war on terror” nonsense. The government is not coming for “half the country” — it’s lawfully prosecuting a few hundred people who broke the law on Jan. 6. But we’re supposed to believe that the Trump base is not merely indivisible but defined by a tiny sliver of the worst actors on the right. That’s the real insult to the 74 million.
Commentary Jonah Goldberg explains that he broke with Fox News after it depicted the Jan. 6 assault as a "false flag" event.
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The Goldberg/Hayes saga is a manifestation of a larger trend. The audience of right-wing media such as Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network wants little to do with resisting Trump, even if that means they are resisting the truth. Republicans who don't get news from these networks are far more unfavorable to Trump.
The audience of right wing media such as Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network wants little to do with resisting Trump... Republicans who don't get news from these networks are far more unfavorable to the former President.
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