What has Trump done to this country?

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Mr.Estrain said:
As bad as trump was he was a symptom of the loss of the fairness doctrine. As a Canadian, looking from the outside I've been trying to figure out what went wrong with America and how it got to where it is now. To me, it looks like the loss of that legislation has resulted in the downfall of their society.

www.britannica.com

Fairness doctrine | History, Provisions, Repeal, & Facts

Fairness doctrine, U.S. communications policy (1949–87) formulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that required licensed radio and television broadcasters to present fair and balanced coverage of controversial issues of interest to their communities.
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Controlling the information people are fed will shape their beliefs.

Which is what the world just witnessed with the disinformation regarding the election. The bulk of these trump supporters who are generally "poorly educated" according to his words, are susceptible to being misled and by not having truthful broadcasting it permits lies and misinformation to infect their minds. Look at the right wing media, I can't think of a right wing news organization that is generally honest.

www.poynter.org

Should you trust media bias charts? - Poynter

These controversial charts claim to show news outlets' political lean and credibility. Here’s what you need to know. (Originally published Dec. 14, 2020)
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"When people are influenced by undisclosed political bias in the news they consume, “that’s pretty bad for democratic politics, pretty bad for our country to have people be consistently misinformed and think they’re informed,” Groeling said." An excerpt from the article.

Notice how the right wing media has a huge gap on the top where it refers to reliability.
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This article explains some of what got them to where they are now. It is not just lower education, there are enough who are. It is just how their world view was shaped.

How ’90s Christian radio enabled Rush Limbaugh’s toxic views

The 1990s Christian radio ecosystem played a crucial role in enabling Limbaugh and conservative talk radio.
The late Rush Limbaugh’s far-reaching and toxic impact on conservative America and the Republican party is well-known and well-documented. Still, there’s one aspect of his legacy, specifically his cultural dominance in the 1990s, that’s difficult to convey in the post-internet era: Limbaugh’s pivotal role in the ascension of conservative talk radio and the pivotal role that conservative radio played in emboldening modern conservative populism.
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The toxic relationship between Rush Limbaugh and Christian radio networks

The 1990s Christian radio ecosystem played a crucial role in enabling Limbaugh and conservative talk radio.
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Mr.Estrain

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This article explains some of what got them to where they are now. It is not just lower education, there are enough who are. It is just how their world view was shaped.

How ’90s Christian radio enabled Rush Limbaugh’s toxic views


The 1990s Christian radio ecosystem played a crucial role in enabling Limbaugh and conservative talk radio.
The late Rush Limbaugh’s far-reaching and toxic impact on conservative America and the Republican party is well-known and well-documented. Still, there’s one aspect of his legacy, specifically his cultural dominance in the 1990s, that’s difficult to convey in the post-internet era: Limbaugh’s pivotal role in the ascension of conservative talk radio and the pivotal role that conservative radio played in emboldening modern conservative populism.
www.vox.com

The toxic relationship between Rush Limbaugh and Christian radio networks

The 1990s Christian radio ecosystem played a crucial role in enabling Limbaugh and conservative talk radio.
www.vox.com www.vox.com
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Just started reading the article and I couldn't help but notice that the start up for his show was 1988. Right after the loss of the fairness doctrine.


Back to the article...
 
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Almost half of Republicans would join Trump party: poll
Nearly half of Republicans say they would abandon the party as it is currently structured and join a new party if former President Trump was its leader, according to a new poll released Sunday.

A Suffolk University-USA Today poll found that 46 percent of Republicans said they would abandon the GOP and join the Trump party if the former president decided to create one. Only 27 percent said they would stay with the GOP, with the remainder indicating they would be undecided.
"We feel like Republicans don't fight enough for us, and we all see Donald Trump fighting for us as hard as he can, every single day," a Republican and small-business owner from Milwaukee told the newspaper. "But then you have establishment Republicans who just agree with establishment Democrats and everything, and they don't ever push back."
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Almost half of Republicans would join Trump party: poll

Nearly half of Republicans say they would abandon the party as it is currently structured and join a new party if former President Trump was its leader, according to a new poll released Sunday…
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Anything Democratic is bad, even if Republicans feel it is good and do not push back.
 
Mr.Estrain

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Just a coincidence.
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Not at all. That type of content is the exact thing the fairness doctrine prevented. That show was started becausea of the legislations loss, it wouldn't have been possible before that.

At the end of the day it was all part of the plan of the "right". Do away with the law(s) preventing you implementing you mind control media operations, brain wash the morons and have your way politically.

It was a good read, pretty sly to recognize the gulabilty of the evangelical right and manipulate that for the benefit of the party. I understand now where they get their cult like blinders from.
 
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Almost half of Republicans would join Trump party: poll
Nearly half of Republicans say they would abandon the party as it is currently structured and join a new party if former President Trump was its leader, according to a new poll released Sunday.

A Suffolk University-USA Today poll found that 46 percent of Republicans said they would abandon the GOP and join the Trump party if the former president decided to create one. Only 27 percent said they would stay with the GOP, with the remainder indicating they would be undecided.
"We feel like Republicans don't fight enough for us, and we all see Donald Trump fighting for us as hard as he can, every single day," a Republican and small-business owner from Milwaukee told the newspaper. "But then you have establishment Republicans who just agree with establishment Democrats and everything, and they don't ever push back."
thehill.com

Almost half of Republicans would join Trump party: poll

Nearly half of Republicans say they would abandon the party as it is currently structured and join a new party if former President Trump was its leader, according to a new poll released Sunday…
thehill.com thehill.com

Anything Democratic is bad, even if Republicans feel it is good and do not push back.
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push back? = lie, cheat, steal, pandemic unleashed, The Big Lie..INSURRECTION. sounds about right. (no pun intended)

trumpers can call it what they wish, have an alternate everything but it's not okay and the rest of the world is laughing at these morons.
 
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Almost half of Republicans would join Trump party: poll
Nearly half of Republicans say they would abandon the party as it is currently structured and join a new party if former President Trump was its leader, according to a new poll released Sunday.

A Suffolk University-USA Today poll found that 46 percent of Republicans said they would abandon the GOP and join the Trump party if the former president decided to create one. Only 27 percent said they would stay with the GOP, with the remainder indicating they would be undecided.
"We feel like Republicans don't fight enough for us, and we all see Donald Trump fighting for us as hard as he can, every single day," a Republican and small-business owner from Milwaukee told the newspaper. "But then you have establishment Republicans who just agree with establishment Democrats and everything, and they don't ever push back."
thehill.com

Almost half of Republicans would join Trump party: poll

Nearly half of Republicans say they would abandon the party as it is currently structured and join a new party if former President Trump was its leader, according to a new poll released Sunday…
thehill.com thehill.com

Anything Democratic is bad, even if Republicans feel it is good and do not push back.
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Trump already owns the Republican Party. His people are working to push that last 27% out, so they don't have to listen to them talk about facts, principles, the constitution and stuff.
 
DIY-HP-LED

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The remaining sane are being distilled out, leaving the residue of Trump, the slime behind, as the GOP descends into fascist madness. You can never let such people gain and hold power federally again, just look at what they are doing in the states where they have control. Donald left a half million dead and a fanatical racist base that is disconnected from reality and are a threat to American society and democracy. Donald is now proclaiming "ownership" of the republican party, that has become little more than a hoard of morons and the mentally ill. Donald could run for the GOP presidential nomination from a prison cell and get it, or at least be a king maker in jail.

This represents just the tip of the iceberg, plenty of people haven't got around to changing parties yet.
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Pennsylvania Republican voters leave party in big numbers after Capitol attack, Trump impeachment (inquirer.com)

Almost 19,000 Pennsylvania voters have left the Republican Party since the Capitol attack
There are signs of a broader political shift under way, one that raises the prospect of a Republican primary electorate even friendlier to Trump and Trump-allied candidates.

When Diane Tyson got her driver’s license renewed Jan. 5, a DMV clerk asked whether she wanted to make any changes to her voter registration. A lifelong Republican, Tyson once ran for local office near Reading. She decided to wait: Supporters of Donald Trump were set to descend on Washington the next day as Congress met to certify his election loss.

“I wanted to see if it would be as ugly as it turned out to be,” she said.

As upsetting as the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack was, Tyson, 68, said watching Pennsylvania congressmen vote to throw out their own state’s election results is what soured her on the GOP.

She changed her registration to independent on Jan. 7.

“I knew I could not be a Republican anymore,” she said. “I just can’t — it’s not who I am. The Republican Party has gone down a deep hole that I want no part of. I don’t want an ‘R’ after my name.”

About 19,000 Pennsylvanians have left the Republican Party since Jan 6. That’s a drop in the bucket for a state with more than 8.8 million registered voters, and almost 3.5 million Republicans. But it’s also an unusually high rate of defections: Almost two-thirds of the voters who have switched parties this year left the GOP, compared with a third or less typically.

And there are signs of a broader political shift underway. These are often longtime party loyalists, highly engaged voters who cast Republican primary ballots in low-profile, off-year elections, according to an Inquirer analysis of voter registration data. They haven’t changed their political ideologies, they said in interviews. But they’re registering as third-party or independent voters because they believe that their political home, now led by Trump, has changed around them.

That raises the prospect of a Republican primary electorate even friendlier to Trump and Trump-allied candidates — something that could have big implications for the party in competitive races for governor and U.S. Senate next year.

“Trumpism was a total turnoff to me,” said Michael Kocher, 38, of Spring Township in Berks County. “The cult of personality, the tribalism, it poisoned the Republican Party.”

“It’s not the Republican Party I know,” said Tom Mack, 70, of Yardley, a Republican since the late 1970s. “It’s drifted far away from my beliefs. … The only way I can be heard at this point is to join those who have decided to leave.”
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