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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.

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I'm pretty sure the speech was available via the Fox News App as streamed content. But your point regarding the Media need for Trump is well taken.

However, I'd like to see some political polling on the impact of this speech on independents and disaffected Republicans. It seems to me Trump is not helping turnout for the mid-term elections with this rhetoric, turnout one would think will be necessary to take back the House and Senate.

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To be fair he said stupid and inflammatory things. I do hope his minions do not take him literally or yet again we conservative Republicans will deal with the left's hypocrisy saying Trump invented violence as a campaign tactic.

He is frankly demonstrating every day why he should not be President and also that Republicans can't kick him to the curb fast enough.

Not prosecuting, giving a pass to people that commit violence for your cause is the left's arena, I won't play in that arena.

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Yes, that’s why Trump needs to go away. Give up on a second term and do his thing behind the scenes.

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