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In reply to the discussion: The first casualties of Trump's trade wars are Texas cattle ranchers [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)They have a complete monopoly on RW hate radio in that State. And their mostly Republican voters have already been conditioned to accept any criticism of any Democrat as the Gospel truth. And that goes double for either Hillary or Obama.
They blamed Obama for the recession that BushCo. stoked to life....for years...and probably still do. And even though the Dow Jones and the employment rate both doubled under Obama, they still believe he was a 'disaster' economically. Because one of 'their' politicians or shock jocks told them so.
I think the biggest problem is repeated dis-information, the real 'fake news'. And the very real and successful method of 'the big lie'.
It is rapidly becoming two solitudes where it is traditional MSM, who have created in part the mess by abdicating their journalistic responsibility long ago for the lazy 'he said, she said' false equivalency MO, that are pitted against the alt-right fantasy 'news'.
I can see it only getting worse unfortunately, with more and more Republicans shutting out any station or network that tells them facts they don't want to hear, with encouragement from the POTUS, and tuning in to shows that lie to them to confirm their worst fears.