Politics 'He gets it': Evangelicals aren't turned off by Trump's first term

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9. "That's what we're constantly being told to do now."

That's the big problem. Ever since trump "won," the media has been obsessed about what his fans "want" as if it had to be catered to. It's a way of handing them veto power over everything and that's where we are. To take one example, 80% or more of the country has been clamoring for sane gun control for many years, yet it won't go anywhere because of the "wants" of a small sliver of people. Even democratic policy proposals are reported through this lens. It's quite remarkable. The media is actually perpetuating the status quo of minority rule. Of course, it doesn't help matters that the apparent filter through which any potential candidate for president must pass is a sparsely-populated rural state while 80% of the country's population lives in urban centers.