Why this conservative radio host quit after Trump's victory.

[Hortensis]

“I don't see how this ends well. I don't see how it gets better.” — John Ziegler

This is about trying to talk anti-Trump to a right-wing talk radio audience--not all conservatives, but it's damning for that group.

There are a lot of reasons why it failed, but the straw that broke the camel's back was the election of Donald Trump. The part of this equation your audience will be most interested in is the reality that talk radio, in the era of Trump, isn't remotely conservative. It's also no longer about the truth. It's about telling people what they want to hear.

It's very much like a cult now, where the purpose is to substantiate what the religion is telling you, and anything that runs counter to the religion is inherently false and blasphemous, even evil. So anyone who breaks from orthodoxy is a traitor.

For instance, you can't simply say, as a conservative radio host, that Donald Trump lost the popular vote. Now that's an obvious fact, but listeners can't deal with it, they won't deal with it. Fifty-two percent of Republicans, in fact, don't accept this fact, and they don't accept it because they don't have to in their echo chamber.

They live in an alternative reality in which Trump won the popular vote and the Electoral College vote, and that reality is propped up by conservative media.

http://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/1/3/14103136/donald-trump-conservative-media-talk-radio-john-ziegler-rush-limbaugh

[The Polack MSgt]

1. Yeah... Even the people who pushed this horror

On to the nation are worried.

Rats jumping.off the ship

[11cents]

2. Nope. Rats are fine with it.

It's way too soon to imagine that there's some panic or exodus going on. The rats are still celebrating. A small number of conservatives, like this one, jumped ship during the primaries and have had enough integrity not to jump back on. They're not the rats.

[ffr]

3. It must take a lot for one of their own to snap out of it like that.

Congrats to him though for making the break.

[JHB]

4. Except it has been that way for a quarter century