Appearing on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC
show last week, Tom Jensen from Public Policy Polling explained what
North Carolina Republican voters were saying via a new PPP survey that
found Trump as their top pick. From Nexis: “Republicans in North
Carolina love the Confederate flag. It is getting taken away.
Republicans in North Carolina hate gay marriage. It is here to stay.
Republicans in North Carolina hate Obamacare, it’s here to stay.”
Jensen may as well have been describing Fox News’ most loyal viewers.
Trump is a loud, offensive and ill informed birther who thinks climate change is a hoax. As I noted in May, Trump represents not only the Fox News id, but he mirrors the extreme dark side of Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a man who has reportedly advocated sending Navy SEALs to the U.S.-Mexico border in order to kill undocumented immigrants crossing over into America.
This tweet from Ailes biographer Gabriel Sherman says it all about the spectacle now unfolding: “Trump is what Ailes did to the GOP.”
And what Ailes and Fox are doing to the GOP this summer may not be reversible.
Eric Boehlert, a former senior writer for Salon, is the author of "Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush."
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