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In reply to the discussion: Academics think they've figured out why people voted for Trump and Brexit [View all]sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)A big big reason so many vote for the GOP is because of years and years of the Republican propaganda machine.
Fox and Limbaugh told republicans that Hillary was worse. Fox and Limbaugh talked about emails and Benghazi enough that the real press started to talk about it all the time. Bannon got a propaganda book written and got the NYT to cover it. Mercers funded propaganda at Breitbart and anti Muslim propaganda. American oligarchs fund Hudson and Heritage and Cato and Bradley and AEI to generate fake pro-billionaire propagaanda ideas they then launder into the media. Sinclair is propaganda. Add in Wash Ex, NY Post, WSJ, IJR, Gateway Pundit, etc etc etc.
I dont know why all these articles about trump voter motivation skip the OBVIOUS huge effect of propaganda.
Any one of us who has ever met a GOP voter knows that they use right wing propaganda talking points to justify their votes and views.