Skip to main content

Home/ History Readings/ Group items tagged ifnotsinmllklkklkvv

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Javier E

The End of the Good Republicans - The Bulwark - 0 views

www.thebulwark.com/he-end-of-the-good-republicans

got cycle doom voters ifnotsinmllklkklkvv

shared by Javier E on 24 Oct 22 - No Cached
  • What was the extinction event for Good Republicans?
  • it’s the end-stage of what I call the Republican Triangle of Doom™
  • The toxic and symbiotic relationship between GOP voters, GOP elected officials, and the right-wing infotainment media.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • It works like this: Hardcore base voters want to watch media that confirms all their priors and then some. —> So fringe media outlets get traction with Republican audiences. —> GOP politicians need to go on these media outlets in order to reach base voters. —> The more politicians go on these fringe shows, the more mainstream these outlets become. —> Which creates competition for right-wing news outlets that are one standard deviation more sane, forcing those media outlets to get crazier just to stay on par.
  • Over time, the whole mutually reinforcing, mutually radicalizing process creates the conditions necessary for 70 percent of the Republican party to sincerely believe that Joe Biden is an illegitimate president due to a rigged election
  • It’s hard to blame voters for believing a lie when every politician they see and media personality they trust is repeating it.
1 - 1 of 1
Showing 20▼ items per page