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[The Polack MSgt]

I apologize if this is a repeat post.

The Long, Lucrative Right-wing Grift Is Blowing Up in the World's Face.

If you want to understand intra-GOP warfare, the decision-making process of our president, the implosion of the Republican healthcare plan, and the rest of the politics of the Trump era, you don’t need to know about Russian espionage tactics, the state of the white working class, or even the beliefs of the “alt-right.” You pretty much just need to be in semi-regular contact with a white, reasonably comfortable, male retiree. We are now ruled by men who think and act very much like that ordinary man you might know, and if you want to know why they believe so many strange and terrible things, you can basically blame the fact that a large and lucrative industry is dedicated to lying to them.

http://fusion.kinja.com/the-long-lucrative-right-wing-grift-is-blowing-up-in-t-1793944216

[HAB911]

1. I like

Donald Trump is 70 years old. He has always, clearly, been an incoherent thinker, contradictory and prone to self-gratifying delusions. But if, for much of his life, he was able to pass as an intelligent and well-informed man, it was probably just because he religiously read newspapers, especially the New York Times. That was and is a decent way to sound like a smart person, at least for a few minutes, which is long enough to impress most rich people. Now, though, Trump is older, his thinking more rigid, his favored media outlets less trustworthy and more likely to reinforce reactionary tendencies. Cable news has largely replaced newspapers as his primary source of information about the world. He has also taken to reading conspiratorial websites run by kooks and con artists. Perhaps, if you have a white parent or grandparent over 60, this sounds familiar?

Donald Trump today is a cruel dolt turned into a raving madman by cable news and Breitbart.com.


The Brainwashing of My Dad Trailer

[genxlib]

2. Excellent Article

This presents a view point that I have long thought.

There are a lot of "firsts" for Trump: novice, businessman, outsider, celebrity, etc.

The "first" that matters most is that he is the first consumer of RW media that has occupied the White House.

Despite all those reports of the decline of FOX , they are actually more powerful than ever. They are the soundtrack playing in the mind of dear leader.