They did the same with the so-called “liberal media”.
They repeated that phrase so much that they were able to discredit any claims the media made against Republicans and Republican interests. It’s pretty easy to just yell “oh, they’re biased, the story is a lie”.
Along with that grew right wing news media as a powerful entity. It really was a brilliant strategy where they could completely discredit the mass media when they stated a Republican did something, and then on the flip side the conservative press would simply not report on those events. Or they’d play them down. Or similar spin.
In effect they created two realities.
This is one of the reasons why when you meet a really hard core Republican they seem to be from an alternate universe because for literally decades now, they’ve been fed one lie or half-truth.
It doesn’t help either that much of the mass media is indeed garbage, but most of it has a pro-corporate vibe than ever really being pro-liberal. Even amongst the mass media, few are legitimately left of center.
But there you go, that’s what you get when you politicize things…
It is incredibly frustrating though to see this shit happening and in all that time, Democrats have never been able to build a way to attack the Right.
