Our battle has only begun - "How to Combat Trumpism (Even After Trump Is Gone)" - Common Dreams [View all]

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The tireless Jen Senko joins up with Ken Levy to publish this important piece in CD today.

Jen's a DU member and creator of the crucial documentary "The Brainwashing of My Dad" (2016), and is one of our many heros fighting the root cause of our Disunited States: the manipulative misinformation machine - which has created and feeds the many Anger Addicts the vile Rupert Murdoch, Rush, Jones, and their ilk have helped create. These villains RELENTLESSLY continue to poison the very fabric of our society.

If we don't treat the disease, the symptoms will only get worse.

Remember... The next Donald might not be so stupid.

Please help spread her message, and help us fight back by speaking up and sharing the despicable truth of what's being done to us.

This story — that a few extreme-libertarian billionaires like the Murdoch family use media like Fox News to enrich themselves at viewers’ expense — needs to be told over and over again, in every possible venue.

by Ken Levy, Jen Senko

One would think that four years of unprecedented incompetence, lies, cruelty, corruption, and scandals would have disillusioned even the most passionate Trump supporters. But given the election results, approximately 45% of our country continues, proudly, to support him. Most of the other 55% of Americans have concluded that Trump’s 45% consists primarily of true believers, that they are immune to facts and reason, and therefore that we will have to contend with Trumpism for many years to come.
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Persuasion, however, will not be easy. As too many of us have learned over the last five years, merely fact-checking Trump’s many lies or debating policy will hardly make a dent. Instead, persuasion of the more “tractable” 25% will require an alternative approach: exposing the oligarchical agenda behind right-wing propaganda—or the “entertainment wing of the Republican Party,” as Steve Schmidt refers to it.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/11/13/how-combat-trumpism-even-after-trump-gone