It nearly always works for them, and there is almost never a price to pay. So of course…

I'm sorry, but it's extremely obvious at this point that a depressingly large segment of our fellow citizens want fascism. Getting those people to abandon Trump/fascism is unlikely. We need another approach.

Very sadly, I have to completely agree with you.

Too many pundits keep acting like Fox is driving the car with their "innocent" viewers are trapped in the back seat. In reality the reverse is closer to the truth, and we need to accept that.

"Newly released messages show Fox executives fretting that month over an uncomfortable revelation: that if they told their audience the truth about the election, it could destroy their business model."

--Washington Post, 2/17/23

I often think of this Steve Jobs quote from 1996:

"…you look at television and think there's a
conspiracy…the networks have conspired to dumb us down…but that's not true. Conspiracy is optimistic! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.”

We really need to stop pretending that these people are innocent victims who have been kidnapped by Fox News and other right-wing media. As long as we believe that nonsense we'll never create the solutions we actually need.

Parsnips don't get half the attention they deserve, that's for sure.

These lists are the beating heart of many campaigns because they are huge moneymakers. But the cynical way in which they are sold/used repulses many who are targeted. There has to be a better way. There needs to be a better way.

As someone whose worldview is based on science and the scientific method, I can understand why it's very difficult to wrap your head around these people. It might help to remember that these dimwits are happy to ignore logic, evidence, and/or reason if it interferes with their agenda.

Would be nice. Would be proper. I'm not holding my breath.

I doubt a single Republican Senator believes there is any scenario in which they would pay a price for this. And given the reality of our current political climate, it's difficult to blame them. But if Hegseth becomes the shit show we expect, Democrats will need to respond accordingly.

Yes this is weird & creepy, but I advise you to take it seriously. It's the mindset of a LOT of right-wing people. How they view Trump. What they think he needs to be. It tells us so much about the people now running the country along with those who voted for all of this.

Pay attention.

They live in an alternate reality. The facts and events that we take for granted are either unknown to them or rejected by them.

Anger
There's a reason right-wing media so often goes out of its way to infuriate its viewers/listeners.

We're verging on conspiracy theories now, which I am not a fan of. If Trump actually does all of this in all of these ways then none of these conversations matter anyway. We're cooked.

This is the 9th version of their plan. The first was published in 1981. They have been very open for a long time about what they want to accomplish. Wanting & succeeding are two different things however.