This transformation has been in process for several years, but I date it to January 6 for two reasons. First, before that, the right-wing media didn’t have all-consuming power when it came to crunch time. There was still enough of a shred of news-gathering honesty at Fox News that it called Arizona for Joe Biden. Conservative politicians and the right-wing media could have woken up on January 7 and decided that enough was enough and they were captaining their MAGA-ized spaceship back down to planet Earth. It gave these outlets a sense of mission that wasn’t quite so fully and recognizably there before.

Source: Washington Post February 12, 2024 20:58 UTC