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Right-wing media represented and was nurtured by the party's grass-roots base—as opposed to "the donor class" or "the Chamber of Commerce wing" of the Republican Party (such as the Koch network). Nicole Hemmer describes the Republican Party as having "outsourced" its media to the right-wing media just as “it outsourced funding to PACS”. [22]
Trumpism has been described as right-wing authoritarian populist, [83] and is broadly seen among scholars as posing an existential threat to American democracy. [84] His presidency sparked renewed focus and research on restraining presidential power and the threats of a criminal presidency that had died down since the Nixon administration. [ 85 ]
The OANN claim was itself based on a claim on an anonymous right-wing blog. [ 187 ] [ 185 ] No evidence supported Trump's claims that the man was an "antifa" member, [ 181 ] [ 183 ] [ 188 ] that the incident was a setup, [ 182 ] that the man fell "harder than he was pushed", [ 189 ] or that the man was attempting to "scan" police devices.
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Credit: The Other 98%. In the quote, Trump calls voters the "dumbest group of voters in the country." He continued, saying that they'd believe anything Fox broadcasts.
Mitt Romney, once the Republican Party’s standard-bearer, believes the right-wing media machine is at fault for much of the radicalization that has disfigured the GOP.
Loyalty would be rewarded with safe seats, and should a Republican in good standing somehow happen to lose an election, support from billionaires meant that there was a safety net — “wing nut welfare” — in the form of chairs at lavishly funded right-wing think tanks, gigs at Fox News and so on. [13]