Thread by @mattsheffield

The very worst thing about conservative media is that those that refuse to regularly promote conspiracy theories basically never call out their extremist counterparts who do. A great example of this is that conservative sites have not covered Mike Lindell plotting a coup.

Breitbart's management seems to have turned against the Trump coup efforts after the 1/6 Capitol violence. But the publication does not criticize those continue to believe and promote the coup.

They haven't talked at all about Lindell in the past week.

Townhall has not either.

RealClearPolitics, which is openly conservative now, has not covered Mike Lindell in the past week either.

The Federalist, which has the lowest editorial standards of all these sites, also has not covered Mike Lindell in the past week.

Fox News has also not covered Mike Lindell's coup attempt, despite having hundreds of employees who could easily have done so.

We know for a fact based on reporting by @willsommer that Breitbart editors finally have realized that Trump is a cancer on the GOP and that he's not worth supporting, but they cannot say this publicly outside of their internal Slack community thedailybeast.com/breitbart-staf…

That's because conservative media figures don't see themselves as independent journalists. They see themselves as servants to the cause. For that reason, there is an informal code of silence that fellow conservatives mustn't be criticized publicly. No matter what they do.

This omerta silence is exists among the non-media activists as well. There is zero loyalty to any Republican who they perceive as insufficiently rightwing but they will do anything for a comrade.

See my earlier thread on right-wing martyr complexs ICYMI

https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/1349047726361612289

Conservatives who do speak out in favor of honesty and ethics, no matter how far right their views are, are viciously attacked and smeared. They are called the worst epithet of all, Republican In Name Only (RINO). Former GOP representative @justinamash is the perfect example.

This totalitarian thought control is the mechanism of why GOP has turned from a business party w/a fascist wing into a fascist party w/a business wing.

It's also why their claims to hate "cancel culture" are pure projection. They believe everyone who disagrees must be canceled.

Last point: There are some conservative media figures who actually want to condemn the coup attempts and do on Twitter. But they do not put those opinions into their publications for fear of right wing cancel culture and political correctness.