Trumpists told to stop reading mainstream media…..

The ‘Truth’ is NOT what they should listening to?

Let the Right leaning media continue the effort to disregard reality?

(I will agree that some ‘mainstream media ‘ have agenda’s also)

But?

Donald Trump himself WILL speek to anyone that will listen it appears….

At this point in the political cycle six years ago, Rand Paul was on the cover of Time magazine. “The Most Interesting Man in Politics,” the headline said of the junior senator from Kentucky and 2016 presidential aspirant. He was on the cover of The New York Times Magazine too, billed as a “Major Threat” (with a design riffing off the visual language of the punk band Minor Threat).

In both instances, Paul spent lots of time with the reporters, posing for pictures, and his views were given at least a fair, if not flattering, airing. And if Paul was a sympathetic figure for the media in his pre-2016 days — a civil libertarian who opposed military escalation abroad and seemed to hate the Republican Establishment as much as Democrats did — he wasn’t alone in receiving and participating in coverage from the elite media. Ted Cruz was profiled in The New Yorker, pictured in his cowboy boots before a painting of Ronald Reagan. He was portrayed as an archconservative, but a swashbuckling one, with his father and various employers, friends, and former college professors speaking to his intelligence. Marco Rubio was also in the magazine and was compared to a Republican Kennedy.

It wasn’t just Paul, Cruz, and Rubio. Take a look at any of the prestige- and Establishment-media outlets from around this time (including this one), and all of their pages were graced with the Jeb Bushes, Chris Christies, John Kasichs, and other contenders who were making up an already overstuffed presidential-primary field.

We are at the same point now in the 2024 election cycle, and again two fistfuls of Republicans are making noises about running for president. But that kind of long look at the life and career of the contenders has been all but absent so far this election cycle…

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A competing theory of the case is that there is really not much Republicans can say. The past six years have seen them rally behind a person almost all of them once denounced as dangerously unfit for public office — even as their most dire 2015-era warnings proved true. Any decent profile writer would have to ask, until some kind of satisfactory answer was achieved, what they saw during the Trump administration that made them change their stance….

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“Fundamentally, they don’t want to have to defend Donald Trump and his falsehoods about the election,” said Jeremy Peters, a reporter with the Timeswho has written about the right for years and whose recent book, Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted, documents the conservative movement’s evolution over the past decade. “There are a lot of Republicans who will privately tell you they are Trump skeptical, but they have to defend his election lies on the record, and it makes them uncomfortable.”….

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The era of the political profile — for Republicans, at least — might be over. Oddly enough, the one person who may still be exempt from the dynamic is the one who started it all. Although the elite media scorned Trump in 2016, he still sat for profiles for politics-adjacent outlets such as Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed, and these days, he has welcomed every journalist writing a book about the Trump era to Mar-a-Lago. He was also the most recent GOP nominee, and he is likely to be the next one….

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