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Originally Posted by New Era
Again, Canada is much different than the United States, but I would say you should checkout what The Rebel has to say. In the US you have Breitbart, Fox News, iHeartRadio's hundreds of stations repeating RW hate radio, Alex Jones, and on and on and on attacking liberals non-stop and blaming them for everything imaginable. There is no intellectualism to their argument or message, its just pure vitriol and anger. But Salon is bad because they make a statement about a movement that even remaining conservative intellectuals are in agreement about?
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New Era/Itse, that is all true.
But i'm not sure i buy that the right only has institutional bases in the GOP and among the people whose dollars create and support think tanks, and neither a party nor a moneyed interest is going to be all that keen to promote thinking.
It doesn't explain how Trump, an outsider, won the nomination. Trump in his campaigning actually made people think. Yes that sounds weird but he rallied people where Cruz and Rubio (who are more right-learning) could not.
I agree that Liberals are more open-minded than Conservatives. Thus the names Liberals and Conservatives. But on the outside fringes on both sides, left or right populism, it's not that different. I get the argument that in American, the right is closer to that dangerous fringe than the left is. But again, that doesn't explain Trump who isn't really right-wing winning the nomination.
In the end, the States is really majority centrist. The Democrats would win by a landslide if they could tap into that better.