Our battle has only begun - "How to Combat Trumpism (Even After Trump Is Gone)" - Common Dreams

[Pluvious]

The tireless Jen Senko joins up with Ken Levy to publish this important piece in CD today.

Jen's a DU member and creator of the crucial documentary "The Brainwashing of My Dad" (2016), and is one of our many heros fighting the root cause of our Disunited States: the manipulative misinformation machine - which has created and feeds the many Anger Addicts the vile Rupert Murdoch, Rush, Jones, and their ilk have helped create. These villains RELENTLESSLY continue to poison the very fabric of our society.

If we don't treat the disease, the symptoms will only get worse.

Remember... The next Donald might not be so stupid.

Please help spread her message, and help us fight back by speaking up and sharing the despicable truth of what's being done to us.

This story — that a few extreme-libertarian billionaires like the Murdoch family use media like Fox News to enrich themselves at viewers’ expense — needs to be told over and over again, in every possible venue.

by Ken Levy, Jen Senko

One would think that four years of unprecedented incompetence, lies, cruelty, corruption, and scandals would have disillusioned even the most passionate Trump supporters. But given the election results, approximately 45% of our country continues, proudly, to support him. Most of the other 55% of Americans have concluded that Trump’s 45% consists primarily of true believers, that they are immune to facts and reason, and therefore that we will have to contend with Trumpism for many years to come.
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Persuasion, however, will not be easy. As too many of us have learned over the last five years, merely fact-checking Trump’s many lies or debating policy will hardly make a dent. Instead, persuasion of the more “tractable” 25% will require an alternative approach: exposing the oligarchical agenda behind right-wing propaganda—or the “entertainment wing of the Republican Party,” as Steve Schmidt refers to it.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/11/13/how-combat-trumpism-even-after-trump-gone

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Stop calling it "Trumpism". "Trumpism" is just rebranded far right extremism.

Tea Party, Patriot Movement, Birchers, and so forth.

Same christofascist ideology, different decade, different scapegoats to hate and demonize.

[Pantagruel]

2. Trumpism is not a philosophy.

It's a power grab. Trump believes in nothing but power, he'll change ideology like most of us change socks.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. What needs to be done is to let the floodgates open and prosecute this thug to the fullest...

extent of his crimes, his rapes, his stealing etc., all of his crimes that were put on the sidelines, because he was 'president'. He's a carnival barker, no less.

[Six117]

4. I'm thinking

Any hope of salvaging some of the 70 million will take both a soft approach as described in the article and a firm structural approach -especially to the destructive lies and misinformation. Canadians have laws against hate speech, we can figure it out too. With no accountability for the harm these people cause, no matter what their motivation -they will continue tearing our world apart.

We have to protect ourselves and this planet.

[Midnight Writer]

5. I've long held the belief that radio stations are paid to run Hate Radio content.

Many of the Right Wing talk shows in my area don't even run ads.

They have Public Service announcements, promos for the show, bumper music, or even dead air.

It is a myth that the reason nearly all talk radio is conservative nuttery is because of the Free Market.

I am perplexed that the Liberals have ceded this valuable space to Conservatives.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. The cult bubble of Rush, Fascist Oligarch eXtremists, and Kochland must be pierced.