David Corn: Will Trump and His Enablers Ever Face Accountability for the Coronavirus Massacre?

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22. You have identified a key source promoting hatred and racism in this country.

In many rural areas, AM radio is all there is, other than broadcast media. On a few long drives through rural areas, I’ve listened to AM radio and been appalled—and this was before Trump was elected. I can’t imagine the utter nonsense being put on the airwaves now. I expected the hate from people like Rush Limbaugh, but what surprised me were the “Christian” shows, on which ministers (or at least they were billed as ministers) preached a gospel never found in anyone’s Bible. Mostly, the “sermons” were diatribes against baby murderers, sinful women, gays, and Democrats, along with some jibes at the welfare state.

When Democrats are back in office, they need to pass a new fairness doctrine and they need to go back to the old law limiting the ownership of media outlets.

Democrats have a lot of cleanup to do just from this maladministration, but some of the cleanup needs to undo the things Reagan did.