How Right-Wing Media Ate the Republican Party

[@markfitzgibbon8367]

this aged like a rotten mango

[@pastramiking6874]

Then why does it taste so damn sweet?

[@Readabookfoofoo]

Ridiculous. Clueless about why people are discontented. It’s the same thing for both parties

[@cichlid43]

This aged well lmao

[@StupidD678]

Oh the irony

[@mossydog2385]

I think you guys have missed the point. Right wing media itself is inherently political because, in it's essence, it's propaganda and is unconstrained by the truth, but that's not why the audience shows up, the audience shows up for different reasons, chief among them is identity and community. Right wing media just chose ultra inflammatory rhetoric to excite their audience through wielding powerful emotional forces and connecting on that emotional level. Remember, Limbaugh was a failed evangelical multimedia preacher and I believe he failed because he had to stick with the story religion tells, not so in politics. In politics, one is unconstrained by ideology or a coherent story laid down centuries ago, in politics the goal is power - and fear, loathing, bigotry and hatred are powerful stimulants to which one becomes addicted. I _think_ that it's gotten a little out of control in that the narrative and addiction itself is leading now, because as in any addiction, eventually you need higher and higher doses to get your fix. I don't think they consciously chose fascism, an ideology not traditionally favored by a country whose fathers fought and died to defeat. No, their need to constantly raise the dose to get their fix led them into this form of very dangerous extremism.

[@andywinger4197]

I was about to copy this link to my FB and make some comment, but I think I'll just copy your comment as well. Very well put.

[@t.l.1610]

VERY well put.

[@joshntn37111]

Did you just make this up? Or are you just repeating something you heard somewhere? You have no idea how ridiculous you sound in this comment. It's obviously you have never spent time outside a city. You are way off.

[@billcoleman4258]

As a consumer of conservative media, I read and watch it simply in order to obtain access to news that the liberal media refuse to report.

[@kevinwoolley7960]

Right wing media also pays attention to issues that the mainstream media typically pretend don't exist, such as the crisis at the border and the obvious deteriorating mental status of Pres. Biden. Mainstream media are finally pivoting to these issues only because they have become outrageously obvious and can't be ignored in favor of stuff like climate change, gender identity politics, and Trump's outrageousness , which is their preferred milieu.

[@MartynCollins]

Rush is dead.

[@jimmiller1686]

The GOP might look like it's a mess, but it's a very small minority that wields the balance of power. If the GOP had a 60 vote majority in the House, the maga crowd would just be noise. But with a very small GOP majority, the maga people can decide which way the entire GOP goes. It's a little like the Irish Nationalists in the UK Parliament before Irish independence.

[@t.l.1610]

True. Looking at the popular vote VS. electoral college really makes that stark. (Edit: the last Republican POTUS to win both popular vote and electoral college was Bush in 2004. That’s absurd).

[@liverworm9917]

@@t.l.1610 Not anymore lol

[@geofromnj7377]

The problem with the Left and media is easily explained. Wealthy liberals refuse to fund popular media directed at retail voters. Wealthy conservatives fund popular media because the messages conveyed convince listeners to vote Republican politicians who have been bought to support the financial interests of these wealthy conservatives.

[@kevinwoolley7960]

Bezos and WaPo anyone? This is pretty inaccurate.

[@jamesphelps1958]

They answered that critique in the podcast - Its an issue of self image and morality. There are no simple answers on Ezra Klein just as in life

[@thomasesau2376]

I believed the balkanization of the GOP was expected, if not inevitable when an actor was elected proposing "Voodoo Economics." Then when the shell presidency was appointed by the SCOTUS over the issue of "Hanging Chads." As voter surpression became the fundamental agency to the GOP in the White House, party fragmentation was a probable catastrophic glide path.

[@timmoretz523]

I laugh listening to rig😢ht wing radio when they sell Huckaby's Relaxium snake oil, next commercial is for boner pills, followed up by a buy gold coins segment. What a brain trust for an audience.

[@animula6908]

You bought all that stuff😂😂😂

[@vavictus]

This didn’t age well 😂

[@kenmartin5299]

Msnbc has now followed Fox nov 2023

[@jamesphelps1958]

Clearly they haven’t otherwise they would be profitable. They still have a moral compass sadly

[@ebreta1395]

​@jamesphelps1958 Clearly, they are profitable, but apparently not as much as FOX.

[@gazziejeff]

If the NY Times says it. It must be facts. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@johnstallings4049]

Why r u here? 😅

[@whazzat8015]

@@johnstallings4049 RU says it all

[@johnstallings4049]

@@whazzat8015 😶👌

[@liverworm9917]

@@whazzat8015 "Everybody I don't like is a Russian agent!!!"

[@michaelwarren-hy8zh]

What a tosser. Boring biased crap

[@Caspersconcretecontractors]

The GOP might look like it's a mess, but it's a very small minority that wields the balance of power. If the GOP had a 60 vote majority in the House, the maga crowd would just be noise. But with a very small GOP majority, the maga people can decide which way the entire GOP goes. It's a little like the Irish Nationalists in the UK Parliament before Irish independence.