The GOP is on its deathbed

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41. This is from a Canadian point of view

A yuuuuuuuge difference.

Here in Canada, there is no Fox News. And there is no dominance of a RW company like Clear Channel owning most daytime talk radio. There is no Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. There are still RW radio hosts but there is not the blatant lying and conspiracy theory pushers getting prime time. Our extremist RW media attempts to increase visibility have failed. It doesn't mean we don't have our own RW wingnut blowhards. There is a person, Ezra Levant, who is the founder of something called Rebel Media and has a YouTube channel who spouts the usual racist baiting, fear mongering that you are all so familiar with down there. But he started as a journalist for a conservative leaning, but respectable MSM paper, the Post. He was too radical for them and left for a more RW media company Sun News. At around this time he was sued for libel, successfully, twice. They did have a nick name here as "Fox News North" but in all honesty they never gained much viewership. They cried foul that our regulatory body didn't let them be a part of basic cable news, mostly because they couldn't prove that they were relevant enough to most viewers. Sun News eventually collapsed along with Ezra's voice. So he started Rebel Media on YouTube.

We also have a large and long running publicly funded media company, the CBC, who generally keeps the other private media companies in check with their stellar journalism. And there are places in the far north where they are the only station, mostly because there is no money to be made per viewer in more remote places.

And we also have a solid public financing of elections which negates a lot of RW money infiltrating and supporting and building the kind of RW media machine that exists down there ie..Koch brothers.

So eventually the truth catches up to the Cons that have ruled our country. The Mulroney Cons of the 80's, and the Harper Cons of the 2000's. And their comebacks usually involve a whole rebuild and rebranding.