This quote from Donald Trump in 1998 to People Magazine, encapsulates everything that is wrong with the modern GOP.
You need to mark this moment because I am about to say something I rarely say. Trump was right. Many Republicans, according to polls about 85 to 90 percent them, believe anything said on FOX News since its inception on October 1996.
This particular ignorant conman, who some call President of the United States, nailed it. He understood how he could lie at will on FOX News and get away with it, and that is exactly what we've seen over the last four years. He lies and the anchors on FOX twist themselves into pretzels to back up his lies. The ones who refuse to do that he been lambasted and marked as traitors. Shep Smith felt the need to leave the network, while Neil Cavuto and Chris Wallace have been constantly abused by the Trump base.
The same FOX anchors (Sean Hannity, Mr. Jeanine Pirro, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and alike) who screamed that Democrats could not accept the election of Donald Trump, now refuse to accept the election results in 2020. Remember their initial claim that the Democrats refused to accept the results in 2016 was a BOLDFACE LIE. Hilary Clinton conceded the election to Trump early in the morning on November 9, 2016 and Barack Obama had the President-Elect (Trump) in for a meeting days later.
Neither of these things have happened this time. This megalomaniac will never concede because he can't handle the fact that he is a LOSER, but he is. The only reason this sociopath has been allowed to brainwash the public is because FOX News has allowed this. FOX lies for him. They couch the truth for him. And when they do not carry his water completely, he turns his rage on them like he did when they called Arizona for PRESIDENT-ELECT Joe Biden.
The latest example of this is FOX News propagandists turning their anger on Republicans in Georgia and Republican state legislators in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizona. The most high-profile example of this might be the new found disdain for Attorney General William Barr, who simply said that their was no evidence of wide-spread election fraud, which their is not. FOX has actually turned its attack dogs on Barr, who has spend his entire time as AG cleaning up Trump's messes and lying for him, but now he is the enemy of the people according to Trump and FOX.
With FOX News not being Trumpy enough, he has now steered his insane base to even more conspiratorial networks like OAN (One America News) and News Max, which have both refused to call the 2020 election. That's because they are not news networks, they are propagandists. Until the modern GOP divorces themselves from these crazed so-called news networks, Republican politicians will be catering to a base of Q'Anon nuts and alike. Don't be an American Idiot!!
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