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Explain Like I'm Five

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ELI 5 Why is everyone all of a sudden lining or aligning with Trump and trying to kiss his ring when they critized him and stood their ground. Why are they now folding? Is it fear or something? (lemmy.world)
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[–] chetradley@lemm.ee 25 points 4 days ago

Last August, the podcast Behind the Bastards did a great two-parter on "How the Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win". The focus was on pre-WW2, but it has obvious parallels to today. I highly recommend it, but the long and short of it is that legitimizing and platforming horrible but popular people was a good business strategy for news outlets, since they could appear "unbiased" and court interviews with said horrible people.