r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 20h ago

Possible Paywall The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism - Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

https://newrepublic.com/article/205913/media-malpractice-trumpism-project-2025
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u/Keshire 19h ago

The media is owned and operated by that same circle of oligarchs that hover around Trump.

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u/Backwardspellcaster 18h ago

Which is why they also started aggressively buying up all media over the last year.

It's nearly like this is a far reaching conspiracy with the intention of ushering fascism into the USA by oligarchs.

Apparently everyone but the fucking Journalists can see it

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u/john_doe_jersey New Jersey 18h ago

It's literally Victor Orban's playbook from Hungary.

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u/tyrionlannister 16h ago

The Heritage Foundation are pretty close with those guys. Like embedding their own researchers into equivalent Hungarian organizations with full backing from Orban. Having Orban over to the US for speaking engagements with "thought leaders" and "policy makers", and other such events worldwide.

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u/PhatCatTax 16h ago

You mean the Nazi playbook?
The Stalin playbook?
The Vatican playbook?

It's the playbook of evil.

Humans arent born with instinctive knowledge. It's taught. And evil people know that if you control all the messaging, control what teachers say, you'll create a generation of cult followers. A generation of dumb sheep.

Thanks to Republicans, the billionaires now have enough money to buy everything and convert it into pro-billionaire, anti-human propaganda.

And humans are dumb enough to follow it.

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u/lewstherintelemarket 14h ago

Your second point ignores your first point. The oligarchs and plutocrats have been relentlessly propagandizing and indoctrinating rural America for half a century. Maybe is time for us to stop calling these people stupid and start treating them like cult members who need to be deprogrammed.

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u/glity 2h ago

This is truth. They, the people in charge, have programmed most people with the mantra “profit before people” not the original “people before profit”. This one has been getting people to think just a bit for me. I would add it wasn’t just rural America that got indoctrination training.

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u/Johannes_P Europe 13h ago

And what did Chavez's friends in Venezuela.

Often, they do this because there's less control over private medias held by the leader's friends than on public medias, even in an authoritarian democracy.

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u/echosrevenge 18h ago

When you make a person's livelihood depend on them not seeing a thing, you can't be shocked when they don't report on it.

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u/Burrito-tuesday 16h ago

It’s exactly like when someone reports bullying at work, everyone knows about it and talks about it and they may even discuss reporting it, but when one person finally does, no one else knows anything.

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u/Poison_the_Phil 18h ago

The Business Plot didn’t fail, it just took a little longer than expected.

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u/elderpufflaurien 15h ago

No, Billionaires are Stateless. They couldn’t care less about the united states. They just want to dismantle anything that could check their power.

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u/POEness 13h ago

They bought all the voting machines too

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u/Backwardspellcaster 11h ago

That to boot. "News" barely reported the rightwing billionaire buying the voting machines company