The Trump caused Republican meltdown has now consumed Fox News, as the
Republican frontrunner has announced that he will no longer appear on
Fox.
Donald Trump is tearing at the core fibers of the
Republican Party. Fox News is the media megaphone that keeps the right
united. If there is one thing that Republicans can agree on, it is that
they trust Fox. Well, they used to trust Fox News until Trump came
along.
The billionaire is using Fox News’s own argument
against them. Fox is built on the idea that the rest of the media is
liberally biased and treats Republicans unfairly. Fox News has spent
decades drilling the message into their viewers heads that the media is
out to get them.
The message itself built a weakness into
the Fox News/viewer relationship. If Fox News viewers believe that there
is bias in the media, since the network itself is a part of the media,
it has always been possible for their own viewers to figure out that
bias exists at Fox News.
Republicans don’t care if the network is biased
against Democrats, but they do care if Fox appears biased against other
Republicans. Trump is turning Fox News’s own viewers against
them, and Fox place as a crucial role in the Republican cabal.
As the Republican cabal has become more fragmented, Fox News has
been a consistently unifying message delivery system. By attacking one
of the few pillars of Republican unity, Trump is turning the cabal’s
primary into a total free for all.
If Republican viewers doubt the credibility of Fox
News, they will be open to getting their information from somewhere else
a.k.a. Trump. Fox News needs access to the Republican frontrunner more
than Trump needs access to them.
The worst possible scenario is becoming a reality
for the Republican cabal. Trump is exploiting the divides on the lunatic fringe, and blowing up the Republican cabal. This is great news for Democrats, as even
Fox News is being taken down a few pegs by Trump.
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