Remember this quote attributed to Karl Rove? We are watching it play out.
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." [The New York Times Magazine]2004. Reported to us by Ron Suskind. Rove has denied it, but here's a very interesting article about the matter.
[link:https://theweek.com/articles/854892/what-karl-rove-right-about-realitybased-community|
Excerpt:
But after the complete dud of Wednesday's testimony of Robert Mueller before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees, I can't help but wonder: Was "Rove" wrong? Or are Democrats just really bad at this?
I suspect it's a little of both, though I'm strongly disposed toward the second option.
What Democrats did on Wednesday was pretty much the opposite of what I proposed in that May column. They didn't "create a public" that favored impeachment of the president. They pointed to a set of facts contained in the Mueller report — facts that have been reported and discussed in the news for more than three months already — and they presented them again, using a reluctant authority figure to back them up, on the assumption that doing so would be sufficient to carry the day. They appear to have hoped or assumed that the country would respond spontaneously with disgust to the self-evident awfulness of the president's behavior.
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given how extremely biased the media is in favor of republicans and the right wing.
I mean, with the media portraying Hillary as embroiled in one scandal after another non-stop for a quarter-century, you'd think it would have been easy to beat Donnie, who they only repeated everything he said and gave him only 80% of the airtime during the campaign.
And it should be so easy for democrats to get factual points across when the media's preferred format allows anyone to interrupt and shout down each other and generally promotes chaos.
And impeachment, yeah, we only had a president who was basically always below 50% approval, usually way below, with the most consistently high "strong disapproval" numbers of any president in the history of polling. So yeah, democrats should have done more than merely get the public to see Donnie as the worst, most reviled president in history, and running a criminal enterprise from the White House. Because we all know that senate republicans, who had vowed before the trial to vote not to remove Donnie, are oh so responsive to public pressure, especially when it comes from opponents of republicans and their dear leader.
