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In reply to the discussion: I spend a lot of time in the company of Trumpers. I've learned something important. [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)the problem that the left and democrats ignore, so they keep analyzing politics as if studying fish without water.
the reason trump displayed limbaugh publicly as golf partner the day after the mueller report was to send clear message to any republican politician do not even think about cooperating with democrats in investigations and impeachment.
when limbaugh sends his dittohead army after a traitor in the ranks it matters and its worked for 30 years.
by far the best offense democrats and the left could mount is to finish up what stoprush et all started, x100 with artificial intelligence, and put putins other tool limbaugh, the 20-1 monopoly (the only advantage trump has) out of business. when the radio advertising industry has to start asking advertisers if they really want to support trump and global warming denial market forces will cut 1500 down to 200 and there won't be a need for another fairness doctrine.
since the dem party and the progressive orgs are mostly run by city folk who have grown up ignorant of talk radio that probably wont happen so it will come down to a mueller spinoff showing putins been using talk radio at least a decade and the social media ops have been piggybacking that unchallenged repetition.
it seems unlikely mueller would not have found out the trump team (new york magazine 4/3/16) analyzed "1000's of hours of talk radio" in 2014, the same year a russian troll said they got "a list of topics to write about".
that may be why hannity was mentioned in the report 5 times but in the glossary between 'graff' and 'hawker', the name where hannity would be, is totally redacted as 'harm to ongoing matter'