A. Donald Trump as a public persona - not as a person, necessarily, but as the product that his voters bought - is 100% a creation of, by and through the American media, the "free press" unregulated, the product of decades worth of intention by the media which could have either exposed him for what he is or ignored him. And he was a creation FOR the owners of the media.
B. That the same media, over the same decades, turned Hillary Clinton into a cartoon villain, cooking up one phony scandal after another, in cahoots with the Republicans of the worst kind, the Newt Gingrich, Ken Starr kind.
C. That is what the regime of free speech, free press absolutism has led to in reality, in real history, in the real world instead of "more speech" fantasy. It turns out that when the freedom to lie is mixed with the corporate mass media, the results are fascistic, as anyone who looked at the regimes of the Soviet Union, the various fascist countries and Nazism, Mao's China and the other Marxist red-fascisms should have known. Especially those which centered around a cult of personality. If you reproduce that kind of thing here, the goddamned Bill of Rights isn't going to save you from the consequences of civil libertarian rejection of the basic prerequisites of egalitarian democracy, equal justice and common decency.
D. That's what we've gotten, it all started with the permission given for the mass media to lie about liberals with impunity. It was predictable because we saw it happen in other places.
E. It won't end until that permission of the media to lie with impunity is overturned and they can be held accountable for lying about people like Hillary Clinton through civil actions and by regulatory actions against the mass media. Print media is largely irrelevant, though the fucking New York Times is as malignant as ever, as seen by its attempt to normalize Naziism. I don't give the Sulzberger family sole responsibility for this but they played an oversized role in it.
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