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Democrats Need to Run on Biden’s Record, Not From It
Like it or not, we have to give republicans credit for some things. The most important is in their consistent (albeit fraudulent) messaging.
Through the use of over 1,500 right-wing radio stations, about 700 religious stations pushing republican memes and candidates, and several hundred right-wing Spanish-language stations, republicans have figured out how to disseminate talking points to their base without having to provide anything more than culture war red meat about trans Americans, immigrants, liberals, progressives, and the Democratic party in general.
It’s easy to do when a handful of wealthy businessmen and women who root for the tax cuts republicans have so dutifully handed them over the past four decades control the corporate media.
The so-called “liberal media” is a chimera despite right-wing hate mongers’ incessant bashing of it. There is nothing — literally nothing — at the scale of openly conservative messaging comparable to what’s being pumped out on Fox so-called “news”, Newsmax, and One America News Network (OANN). The closest we come to a truly “liberal” media rests in the hands of Free Speech TV, available on some streaming services like Roku; a handful of terrestrial stations like WCPT ; the “Progress” channel on SiriusXM; and myriad podcasts. MSNBC, the cable news channel the right…
