Tomasky: Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?

[valleyrogue]

82. He is not wrong.

The media created Donald Trump. CNN was the biggest culprit through its former head Jeff Zucker. He thought he could turn the 2016 presidential election into a reality TV show with his close friend, Donald trump, at the center. I had never seen anything like it then what I saw in 2016 during the primaries. It was 24/ 7 Donald Trump all the time. It was fawning coverage. There was no big cult surrounding Donald Trump until CNN took this Fringe candidate and made him into a viable candidate. That never should have happened. So while the media bears a ton of responsibility for this mess and added to it, social media was a huge Factor in galvanizing the bigot vote. But in the end, it was the voters who are responsible for voting the way they did. They have the same access to the same information that we have, but they choose not to seek it out. I will say the die was cast when Rupert Murdoch was allowed to have media in the US that was a big, big, mistake. There is no way to reach people who are prejudiced against minorities, women, and so forth. They are unfixable. That is the danger.