3 Columns today highlight the difficulty in opposing King Donald and the necessity of doing so.
The 1st column, written by a former conservative radio talk show host, highlights the success and danger of the successful delegitimization of main stream media by conservative media. Many Trump supporters believe the truth and facts are fabrications and only alternative facts and King Donald's beliefs are the truth. The writer regrets participating in this, but it stills highlights the need for a focused Democratic effort on the policy front to convince Trump supporters who still read main stream media that they have a coherent economic message.
Why Trump Supporter's Don't Care That He Lies
The danger of this is the fact that some of these Trump supporters think 9/11 and Sandy Hook were executed by agents of the U.S. Government because that is what Alternative Media like the Drudge Report and Breitbart News are telling them. Unless those sites change their ways, which they will not because they make their money off the clicks on their website and giving the reader what they want to read is the way to keep them coming back. They are the media equivalent of the Tobacco and Alcohol Industries. Not to mention that most of them think President Obama is a muslim born in Kenya and who rode that falsehood to the pinnacle of power.
The 2nd column is written by Ross Douthat and simply highlights the fact that the country is split 50/50 and the rhetoric that the Democrat's both need to use to combat Trump and and keep their base motivated turns off the other 50% and makes it difficult to get them to listen to what else the Democrats have to say. Crafting something that will make sense to potential swing voters in the Rust Belt and N.H./N.C./Florida is essential but how you communicate that is a challenge that must be meet for the Democrats to have success in 2018/2020.
Douthat "The Counternarrative ...Excludes too much of America"
Meanwhile, there is the issue of the courts and they are the last obstacle to holding King Donald somewhat in check. And the key issue that Democrats must focus on is not Roe v Wade, other Social issues, or gun control, it is basic civil liberties and the separation of powers. The courts are last barrier between President Trump and King Donald. And how Supreme Courts nominee Judge Gorsuch answers questions about those issues should determine how Democrats vote on his nomination.
Link to Linda Greenhouse column
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