The Media Needs Trump
Donald Trump held a massive rally in Texas over the weekend. While you would expect wall-to-wall coverage from conservative outlets on the event, that’s not what happened. Mainstream outlets closely covered the rally and made sure to highlight the most outlandish parts.
After a full year of plummeting ratings and a Democratic administration that nobody wants to watch on television, the mainstream outlets are covering Trump again because they realized they need him. Take a listen:
Yes, that’s why Trump needs to go away. Give up on a second term and do his thing behind the scenes.
Yes, the media needs Donald Trump, as do their political masters over at the Democrat National Committee. Trump represents the boogey man of the Right. After all, it's not as easy to similarly demonize a Ron DeSantis, for example. Such a person conveys the essential message of the conservative movement without the bombast or mean Tweets of a Trump, thus making him far more difficult to demonize. That's why the Republicans need to get the multiracial, multiethnic working class enthusiasm Trump brought to conservatism firmly in their column in 2022 and beyond. The $64,000 Question is, can it be done? I say that if they fail to do so, the Republican Party will have lost its last, best chance to marginalize and discredit the modern American left for the foreseeable future. If they fail to do so, then we're all in for very dark times ahead, as the republic will fall to a form of "soft totalitarianism" - without gulags or summary executions, but with the loss of the souls of the citizenry.