The overwhelming idiocy of the Reichwing
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UPDATED: Thursday, July 10, 2025 17:58
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Fox News Identity Crisis: Indulge Trump’s Election Conspiracy or Reject It … and Watch Its Audience Flee?
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-identity-crisis-indulge-trumps-el
ection-conspiracy-or-reject-it-and-watch-its-audience-flee/
Fox News has projected Joe Biden to have won the election— well, its news division has.
Simultaneously, the network’s top-rated opinion hosts have continued to entertain the increasingly loony conspiracy theory that the election was stolen from Trump through widespread voter fraud. They have been careful in their words, but the near-constant amplification of baseless allegations of a rigged or stolen election has lent credibility to the InfoWars-esque conspiracy theories being touted by Trump. The same theories mocked behind closed doors are being laughed out of courtrooms.
The growing disconnect between the two sides of Fox News programming reveals its current identity crisis and raises a question about their immediate future. Do they want to be a news outlet where facts, as disappointing as they may be, are paramount? Or an information entertainment company that today solely acts as cheerleaders for outgoing President Donald Trump?
This dissonance was neatly illustrated last weekend when Maria Bartiromo, a Fox News anchor and ardent Trump booster, who had just given the platform of her Sunday morning show to Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. Both laid out wild and unproven conspiracy theories and claimed that Trump was the rightful winner of the election. Bartiromo seemed pleased to hear the news and never once challenged her guests on their claims, simply accepting their claim that they had evidence as evidence enough.
But just an hour or so later, Fox News NEWS reporter Eric Shawn filed a thorough report that effectively debunked every single claim that had been presented as real on Bartiromo’s show. It was yet another look at Fox News schizophrenia, and viewers who watched both segments surely endured intense whiplash.
A similar moment occurred when Fox News host Pete Hegseth reported on-air that “So far, state election officials have not reported serious irregularities with the vote that would affect the outcome of the race.” Immediately after, the Trump-boosting host added, “That was in the teleprompter. I read it. I don’t know if I even believe it.”
No wonder that a recent poll found 70% of Republicans believe President Donald Trump was cheated out of the election. Where do those Republicans get their news? Outlets like Newsmax are certainly a venue, but the top hosts at Fox — Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham — remain the most prominent source for the president’s supporters.
Trump alone is not responsible for such vast indoctrination. His baseless claims of a stolen election are just unhinged musings in the absence of a pro-Trump media taking them seriously.
To get it out of the way: No serious person believes that Trump actually won the election until it was stolen from him through a mass conspiracy, as Trump’s legal team is arguing. These arguments are made mostly outside of court, since now nearly all of their 30-plus or so legal challenges have been dismissed. Nonetheless, the massive audience of Fox News prime time is being told, night after night, that there is reason to suspect foul play.
Why?
To put it simply: Fox News is in a very uncomfortable bed of its own making. Telling its viewers that Trump is full of it and that the insane conspiracy theories he is pushing are meritless could prove lethal to the bottom line. The news division’s efforts to dispel these increasingly loony conspiracies have enraged viewers, driving them to outlets like Newsmax and OANN, where Trump is the true victor of the 2020 election.
Trump transparently complained about Fox News forgetting the “Golden Goose,” forgetting that Fox News had long been the dominant network before he entered the political fray. In fact, Trump owes far more to Fox News promotion than the other way around. But It does seem that Fox’s opinion hosts are conc
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Trump's political theater right now is meant to radicalize his MAGA death cult by making them believe he's the rightful king and the throne was stolen from him. History is full of wars fought over two men claiming the same throne. He's trying to start a civil war.
Trump Again Claims He Won Election ‘By a Lot’ during Pennsylvania Senate Hearing
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-again-claims-won-election-204030754.html
Trump’s election fraud allegations are absurd. Republican voters are buying them anyway
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-11-19/republican-voters-are
-buying-trumps-absurd-allegations-about-election-fraud
73 percent of Republican voters are questioning Biden’s victory
https://www.vox.com/2020/11/18/21573145/poll-trump-election-fraud-alle
gations-republican-voters
Half of Republicans Believe President Trump Won Election
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-11-18/half-of-repub
licans-believe-president-trump-won-election-poll-finds
Trump Jr calls for ‘total war’ over election results
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/tru
mp-jr-election-results-war-b1634841.html
America’s largest militia says it will refuse to recognise Biden as president and ‘resist’ his administration
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/oat
h-keepers-militia-donald-trump-joe-biden-2020-election-b1723323.html
‘It’s time to boogaloo’: Militia members regurgitate Trump’s election conspiracy theories at Nevada rally
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/its-time-to-boogaloo-militia-members-
regurgitate-trumps-election-conspiracy-theories-at-nevada-rally/
The Boogaloo: Extremists’ New Slang Term for A Coming Civil War
https://www.adl.org/blog/the-boogaloo-extremists-new-slang-term-for-a-
coming-civil-war
“This Keeps Me Up at Night” Radicalization experts fear what Trump’s fringes will do now—and they aren’t certain how to stop it.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/trump-supporters-radicaliz
ed-experts-postelection-fears.html
The Far Right Doesn't Want to Beat the Left; It Wants to Exterminate It
https://psmag.com/ideas/the-far-right-doesnt-want-to-beat-the-left-it-
wants-to-eliminate-it
Republican lawmaker calls for Kyle Rittenhouse, who is on trial for murder, to be elected to Congress
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-lawmaker-calls-kyle-rittenhouse-
104250060.html
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Trump’s GOP is Increasingly Racist and Authoritarian—and Here to Stay
Having already forsaken Republican principles and policies, his supporters are now willing to forsake reality, too.
https://thebulwark.com/trumps-gop-is-increasingly-racist-and-authorita
rian-and-here-to-stay/
Trump did not materialize from the ether. He rose from a political party bent on thwarting demographic change by subverting the democratic process; a party whose base was addicted to white identity politics, steeped in religious fundamentalism, and suffused with authoritarian cravings—a party which, infected by Trumpism, now spreads the multiple malignancies metastasized by Trump’s personal and political pathologies.
Since the civil rights revolution triggered an influx of resentful Southern whites, the GOP has catered to white grievance and anxiety. Trump’s transformative contribution has been to make racial antagonism overt—a badge of pride that bonds him to his followers in opposition to a pluralist democracy that threatens their imperiled social and political hegemony.
Hence the 2019 tweet in which America’s president told four congresswomen of color—three native-born Americans and one a naturalized citizen—that they should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” With poisonous efficiency, Trump managed to combine racism, xenophobia, and hostility to non-white immigrants to inflame his followers’ antagonism against “the other.”
He comprehends his audience all too well. Take the poll released last week by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) measuring the attitudes of “Fox News Republicans”—the 40 percent of party adherents who trust Fox as their primary source of TV news. The survey found that 91 percent oppose the Black Lives Matter movement; 90 percent believe that police killings of blacks are “isolated incidents”; and 58 think that whites are victimized by racial discrimination, compared to 36 percent who think blacks are.
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Trump’s GOP is Increasingly Racist and Authoritarian—and Here to Stay
Yup. That just about sums up every post that Marcos has ever made.
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