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Old 11-09-2020, 08:11 AM   #5457
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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen View Post
Feel like it's becoming best case scenario. The "mainstream" right-wing media is turning on Trump. Little things like Fox calling Arizona for Biden prematurely and immediately calling Biden "President-elect" once called has Trump and his supporters seething. Murdoch was never a friend of Trump but he knows what sells and when to cut bait and they're cutting bait. The more laughable it becomes, the bigger the divide between the party and hopefully a real draining of the swamp getting rid of Trump and his allies.

While I should probably learn to stop giving the 70 million who voted for Trump the benefit of the doubt at all, there is going to be a divide. Trump's biggest supporters are literally calling for a civil war (See Arkansas Police Chief), the media most favourable to him are run by people calling for beheadings (See Steve Bannon), or being forced off Twitter so they can deny the holocaust and blame the Jews for everything (See Bitchute).

While the average Republican is turning into Fox News, seeing Fox and Friends express skepticism of Trump's claims and chances, they're going to be dissuaded from him. The more embarrassing it becomes and once/if Fox starts laughing at him like the rest of the world, the more the average Fox-viewer is going to start looking back fondly at the never-Trumpers. They've been in the boiling pot but a loss and some less "Trump is God" rhetoric is going to push them back to some sensibility, I hope.

The very limited amount that I have watched of Fox has them 'testing' their next strategy of cutting bait with Trump while keeping their base. They've already explained that people voted for Trump, not because they too were racists or believed his hateful rhetoric and idiotic lies, but that they were doing it despite his character flaws to fight the communists (socialists) as good Americans. Fox is going to tell them soon that they never really supported Trump and they'll believe it.

Meanwhile Trump's feverous supporters are standing back and standing by awaiting commands from Q. They're crazy. If a never-Trumper ends up the candidate, they aren't going to vote for him. Even the more-sane Trump supporters won't be pushed to go out and vote for a Mitt Romney when they realize that Biden didn't come to their house, take their guns and force them to wear a burqa in his four years as president.
Trump supporters are leaving Fox and going to Newsmax which hasnt announced Biden as President elect, and have taken over spinning Trump as the great leader.

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