What right-wing media is responsible for is its role in eroding the legitimacy of validating institutions that would normally have corralled and contained Trump. Instead the right-wing media project of the past 15 years has been to obliterate the trust in these institutions. They are not blameless. The ring-wing media has been systematically setting the table for someone like Trump to come along. When you make lying normal, when you make the concept of a fact elastic to the point that there is no definable milieu by which to actually have meaningful policy discussions, when you bray to the loudest most chauvinistic views for ratings eventually a lying chauvisnist bigger than all others will emerge.
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