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  But they didn't come true in 2022, and they could have.
context: "A precariously narrow but consequential slice of the electorate broke with its own voting history to reject openly extremist Republican candidates — at least partly out of concern for the health of the political system." >
  
  I would love to see what percentage of that slice watches stuff like Fox News with any regularity. It just seems like if you watch that stuff it’s impossible to conclude that any Republican candidates are crazy because the network is actively preventing you from learning that fact. 
  What I’d like to know is: is there any portion of the population that watches that deliberate propaganda and then decides someone like Marjorie Taylor Green is too extreme anyway? >
  
  I am one. I voted trump and watched Fox on the reg. Only fox. When the Jan 6th insurrection happened I watched in horror. I even teared up a touch. I was burning with fire in my heart as I waited for trump to act. Clearly he would show up or stream or something! He would call these misguided people acting like lunatics out for their actions done in his name! Hour after hour… nothing. Then he made a tweet about his VP that was derogatory. 
  It all came into focus. He wanted this. He would be ripping a country apart to serve his twisted Cheeto dusted ego. I had been growing uncomfortable with how he handled and spoke to the press as COVID swept the nation. Plenty of other things I wished he would do different. But on January 6th he lost me. I was wrong to have ever supported him. I’m sorry to my fellow Americans that I didn’t see what others saw so clearly. 
  After that travesty of a day, I waited with baited breath as I knew the Republican Party would lambast him. That he would be out on his ass. Who now couldn’t see this man for the wicked selfish person he is? We know how that went. I’m the silent (until this post at least) percentage of the demographic discussed in this article who will never vote party lines again. I’ll never vote republican so long as this keeps getting more and more crazy. I stopped fox. And I’ve started listening to democrats and what their views and motivations are. 
  I’ve learned we are all just doing our best. Most anyway. The media needs to be understood as a court jester. Mostly putting on a performance to capture your attention. At any cost. Mostly though I was wrong. >
  
  
  It all came into focus. He wanted this. He would be ripping a country apart to serve his twisted Cheeto dusted ego.
  
  Curious, why did his previous actions not set off any alarm bells? Dude spent months aggravating the hell out of his base and encouraging them to be more extreme. >
  
  Fox News is a drug that makes it difficult to see reality clearly. >
  
  And if he was only watching Fox he wouldn't even have heard about a lot of the stuff Trump did.  When something important but bad for the GOP (or good for Democrats) happens I occasionally check the headlines at the major American news sources.  Even when literally every other source has it as the A1 headline Fox will often have it buried in a tiny headline or on a page you have to click to get to, or even not mention it at all.
  One relatively recent example comes to mind;  when the Oath Keeper guy was convicted of actual sedition for the Jan 6th insurrection it was splashed all over the main page at  CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, NYt etc.  It was a major story at Reuters.  And so on.  Fox News' site didn't even mention it.  Not in small type.  Not buried in the links.  It was literally not covered.
  Maybe they got around to a story later I have no idea.  But that sort of thing is why it's hard for people to escape the bubble.  They aren't simply told what to think about the news, they are never presented with some of the news at all. >
  
  Trump isn't in jail. We barely have the Senate. The Supreme Court is still stacked in favor of fascism and are ignoring precedence and conflicts of interest. Voting rights are still not sufficiently protected. Propaganda is still rampant and our leadership is full of old men who cannot stop coddling the fascists.
  My worst fears are still very much alive.