re: #217 Renaissance_Man

Those are, however, the same outlets that made Trump president. The same outlets that refused to talk about Clinton’s accomplishments and made her emails and ‘trust issues’ the story every single day. The same outlets that continued to treat a Trump candidacy as a valid point of view in order to keep people watching and reading. The same outlets that have repeated slavishly everything FOX says, amplifying wingnut dogma into a normal opinion for the body politic, and enabling the modern Republican party to become an all-powerful juggernaut instead of the marginalised crackpot fringe it deserves to be.

The Trump presidency is an artefact of the US media. It is the Achilles heel of democracy. If American democracy fails, it will be because the modern media could not control the worst aspects of demagoguery and its own worst impulses.

As I’ve pointed out here in the past, there is just as much money to be made in building up a president as there is in tearing one down for the media. All the media cares about is selling advertising.