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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRoger Ailes built the Republican party – now both are crumbling in plain sight - by Richard Wolffe
Just two days into the Republican national convention, its already been an ugly week for American conservatives as they watch their party torn apart-snip-
We are witnessing the Great Unravelling of the Republican party. Its ideological intellectuals openly disdain and plot against the partys nominee. Its elected officials are too busy to show up to their own partys convention.
And now the conservative echo chamber itself is collapsing across the mainstream media it surely dominates.
The rapid demise of Roger Ailes at Fox News Channel is as seismic an event as Trumps nomination. For Ailes ruled over a conservative media and political empire that stretched far beyond cable television.
Nixons former image-maker could make or break presidential campaigns, elected officials, TV anchors, talk radio and the pundit class. When Candidate Obama tried personally to woo Murdoch and Ailes in 2008, he found Murdoch far more reasonable than Ailes, who was convinced the young senator represented a mortal threat to the republic.
Ailes could single-handedly turn the Washington conversation from one concocted conspiracy to another: from the New Black Panther Party and death panels to Benghazi, destroying careers, the possibility of political compromise, and the mainstream Republican party along the way. He left other news organizations in his wake, struggling to copy his commercial success with artificial news and freak show formats.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/20/roger-ailes-republican-party-convention-crisis?CMP=edit_2221
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Roger Ailes built the Republican party – now both are crumbling in plain sight - by Richard Wolffe (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jul 2016
OP
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)1. K & R
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)2. GURP ...
the Great Unraveling of the Republican Party.
Kathy M
(1,242 posts)3. If / when
Ailes is out ... who goes in ?
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)6. It probably doesn't matter
the clone is never as good as the original.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)4. Awesome
Snarkoleptic
(6,001 posts)5. Some really ugly chickens are coming home to roost.
It's rather long in coming, but quite amazing to watch.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)7. I thought it would be more gradual
Cha
(297,655 posts)8. Finally.. now for the great unraveling of the trump breed of fascist, racist, bigoted
assholes.
Mahalo, Don~