re: #722 HappyWarrior

You’re ignoring that Trump won due to a freak accident. Trump only won because he got enough votes in the right places. You’re giving them way way too much credit and ignoring that going into November of two years ago, the GOP was going to be eager to distance themselves from his mess.

I don’t think that FOX thought they could win the presidency. I think they planned on a Clinton presidency and an extension of the business model they had during the Obama years. Russia would have gotten what they wanted - a chaotic and weakened US, with a significant proportion of America convinced their government was illegitimate.

I think the sheer volume of racist, evil Americans surprised everyone, even the people who had worked to create them. For the first year or so, they didn’t quite know what to do with this unexpected bonanza. FOX literally won the presidency and didn’t know what to do with it.

Now they know. Straight up Nazism - maintain power by spreading propaganda and sacrificing the disenfranchised.