people like steve, who pushed lies like "obama wants to teach toddlers sex" that catered to fox and relied on fox to push them out in 2008, never reckon with their own role in building this. fox did not emerge overnight in 2016. guys like schmidt helped build it.
https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1405943975391936514
the perverse ad in question schmidt signed off on during the 2008 campaign. and it wasn't just this ad. but this was the tone of that campaign people look at through rose-colored glasses, long before trump was a thing.
yes i hold grudges against the people who have built this all up from the 90's till '16 and i detest the whitewashing of it all, like this all sprang forth from trump's escalator ride.
fox has been around since 1996 and has been a key weapon in the republican arsenal since day one -- that was the point of ailes inventing fox. they didnt just show up with the trump campaign.
(this is why i also roll my eyes at liberals cheering nicole wallace, who was a key part of that campaign)
if people want to compare this to nazi or communist defectors (a comparison i see often), we somehow skipped the part when these guys said their old way of doing things was wrong and actively hurt the country. *shrug*
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