For Trump, Fox News has two functions: With some exceptions, it largely functions as his “shameless propaganda outlet,” as Margaret Sullivan put it, aggressively inflating his successes and faithfully pushing his messages. When Fox occasionally departs from this role, Trump rages at it as a form of deep betrayal. ADADYet according to Trump’s own advisers, these failures are now putting his reelection at risk. On Fox, protests show Trump’s glorious strengthMeanwhile, Trump is mainlining from Fox a daily picture of the protests that is highly distorted and narcotically numbing. And they are suggesting that Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech, which conflated protests with “far-left fascism” to justify sending in more law enforcement, represented the greatest oratory since Cicero.

Source: Washington Post July 27, 2020 14:04 UTC