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Cherie Zaslawsky’s article, “Trump Derangement Syndrome: A
Misdiagnosis” starts off:
Listen to Fox News, and you'll hear
phrases such as “Trump derangement syndrome” and “liberal heads are exploding”
on a daily basis.
Conservative newscasts are peppered
with comments like these: “They're delusional!” “The Democrats just
can't seem to accept that they lost the 2016 election.” “They've
gone crazy!”
Crazy like a fox.
. . .
From the beginning of its “long
march through the institutions,” the Left has been playing the long
game. That hasn't changed. Leftists are playing it today.
Why did they take over the
media? The universities? Hollywood? To get
their hands on the key levers of propaganda. Add to this the
leftward tilt of Google, Facebook, and Twitter, and we're looking at a virtual
lockdown on the primary sources of information and public influence.
. . .
What can be done?
I suggest that, rather than only
responding to each of the Left's baseless attacks on our president, those on
our side change the debate by exposing the radical leftists' use of propaganda
— by shining a light into the dark recesses of their strategy. This
may wake up some of their followers and maybe even begin to free America from
the dark power of the Left.
I have had limited success pointing the
media’s corruption to people I know who still rely on The New York Times or NPR
or CNN for their news. One suggestion that has worked a few times is to propose
that a person expand their sources of news. Tuning in to conservative talk
radio can be traumatic, but browsing through aggregators and at least comparing
headlines has made a difference with some friends and relatives. These days my
go-to sites are Politipage, Instapundit, Lucianne, and a few others (but not Drudge any more). Full American
Thinker article is here.
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