Jimmy Carter Brilliantly Explains How The Establishment Gave Us Trump

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40. But then you sortof argued my point

When you are trying to change the narrative, that can't be done using the newspapers that the "other side" have already discredited to their base, because that base will NOT believe a word that is printed in them. You need those papers that are closer to where these folks live, to step up to the plate.

Case in point - during the final months of the general election, you actually had a number of "conservative" newspapers in NH, TX, and OH that actually refused to endorse Drumpf - the first time that they did NOT endorse the Republican Presidential candidate (either ever or in many decades).

THOSE are the papers that need to transition Drumpf's "base" off the Breitbart/Newsmax/InfoWars bandwagon and bring back the Buckley propaganda machine as a path away from the cliff (what I call the "annoying Republicans vs the RW racist loons now in control). They could perhaps feature some on the right who have been vocally pushing against Drumpf - like George Will, David Frum, and Bill Kristol (among others). Buckley's old rag - the National Review, is already doing some of that with their articles.

The NY Times is speaking to our own choir, not theirs. It and some of the well known "national" papers are coming out of deep blue cities and are unable to "speak to" the areas that need the conversation. That has to come from their hometown papers. Would love to have those folks "flip" to Democratic but that will not happen overnight. They have to be weened off the alternate universe narrative first. I would not be surprised if those "conservatives" mentioned above (and others who feel the same way) may try to put together their own think tank/alternate media outlet as a last ditch effort to "save" the Raygun "brand".