"The answer to the increasing amount of hate in our politics, then—the only answer that fits the data—is almost certainly Fox News, along with the increasing despair and commitment of conservative evangelicals. We saw it in the Fox-led tea party eruption of 2009. It’s evident in the fact that white evangelicals are the most faithful viewers of Fox News. It was behind the monthslong Fox coverage of “fraud” following the 2020 election. And we’re seeing it right now in the endless Fox coverage of critical race theory and supposed anti-white bias in general." [snip]
"For the past 20 years the fight between liberals and conservatives has
been razor close, with neither side making more than minor and temporary
progress in what’s been essentially trench warfare. We can only break
free of this by staying clear-eyed about what really sustains this war.
It is Fox News that has torched the American political system over the
past two decades, and it is Fox News that we have to continue to fight." -- Kevin Drum, with a detailed essay in Mother Jones about "The Real Source of America's Rising Rage" and how Rupert Murdoch's Fox "News" has set America ablaze. With the many founts of Big Lie right- wing propaganda, it's important to remind ourselves what is the number 1 purveyor of vicious lies and hate to Americans on a daily basis for over the past 20 long years.
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