Step 4: Suppression of a Free Press

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1. Do Republicans really want fix it?

They all benefit from the Fox News business model. The pundits get to look like top tier journalist who have a special conduit directly to Trump. Politicians love the free press coverage, the softball interviews and a 24/7 platform to lie, mislead and deceive. The rank and file voters are made to feel right at home with all their confirmation bias validated and their favorite conspiracy theories get top billing.

Some old school Republicans might finally be getting nervous about the tiger they're riding, and if they're starting to mewl about the future oh their party it's too little and too late.

The only way Fox News can stay relevant and make money is to keep pushing farther and farther into the rightwing fringe, and they will take the politicians down with them. Now the GOP is synonymous with the KKK, neo Nazis and believers of wacko conspiracies. They are the new fascist order, the torturers of children and masters of womenkind, they are the zealots of some bastardized religious cult that worships money and greed.

They can't put any of that back in the tube. That's who they are now.