{"id":35930,"date":"2017-10-18T20:31:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T03:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35930"},"modified":"2017-12-08T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T21:51:36","slug":"poll-ignorant-trump-loving-republicans-are-cool-with-government-shutting-down-media-it-doesnt-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35930","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Ignorant Trump-loving Republicans are cool with government shutting down media it doesn&#8217;t like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For nine months Donald Trump has been steering the country into something that more closely resembles a fascist dictatorship. His tendency toward a strict authoritarianism is evident in almost everything he does and says. And the fact that he has issued <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/10\/13\/politics\/donald-trump-executive-orders\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more executive orders<\/a><\/strong> at this point in his presidency than any president in fifty years affirms his inherent imperialism. Particularly since he was a fierce critic of executive orders when President Obama was issuing them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Campaign-2016\/trump-voter.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Voter\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29692\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1907235442624575\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/10\/18\/trump-media-fake-news-poll-243884\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new poll shows<\/a><\/strong> that Trump&#8217;s view of government supremacy has caught on with the Republican Party. The numbers are disturbing for a supposedly free democracy that cherishes a free press. Overall forty-six percent of respondents said that <em>&#8220;the news media fabricate news stories about President Donald Trump.&#8221;<\/em> Even Trump was so moved by this poll that he tweeted about it Wednesday night (FYI: Trump&#8217;s tagging of Fox News is curious. They had nothing to do with this poll):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;46% of Americans think the Media is inventing stories about Trump &amp; his Administration.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxNews<\/a>   It is actually much worse than this!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/920847844759699456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it is much worse. But not in any way that Trump understands. Those numbers are heavily weighted by the views of Republicans. For GOP respondents alone it&#8217;s seventy-six percent who believe that bad Trump press is made up. It isn&#8217;t difficult to figure out where they got this idea from. Trump has been smearing the media for at least two years. His criticisms are not rational observations of press reporting. They are vicious insults and unsupported condemnations of journalists he says are evil. Just last week he told a radio talk show host that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I thought after I won, the media would become much more stable and much more honest. They\u2019ve gone crazy. CNN is a joke. NBC is a total joke.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, he thought the media would bend to the demands of those in power. Why else would journalists behave differently toward a candidate than a president. What&#8217;s more, he isn&#8217;t complaining about a particular story. He&#8217;s trashing whole networks as <em>&#8220;jokes.&#8221;<\/em> His undisguised purpose is to destroy the people&#8217;s faith in journalism as a whole. He wants people to believe no one but himself and his official proclamations on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The consequences of his relentless propaganda have taken a toll. That&#8217;s how you end up with three-quarters of the GOP essentially opposing the First Amendment. And it gets worse. The poll also asked whether <em>&#8220;the government should have the power to revoke broadcast licenses of major news organizations that it says are fabricating news stories about a president or the administration.&#8221;<\/em> On this question as well there was a sharp partisan divide. Forty-six percent of Republicans said the government should have such power. Another twenty-one percent were undecided. So two-thirds of Republicans are comfortable with the government being able to shut down media based on content.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These are the views of a segment of the electorate that has been brainwashed to accept policies that are wholly un-American. Imagine what these same people would have thought if President Obama ever suggested taking such action. But they are perfectly fine with handing Trump the power to strip away the nation&#8217;s constitutionally protected press freedoms. That isn&#8217;t political partisanship. It&#8217;s cult worship. And it&#8217;s a dangerous trend that threatens the future of the American experiment in democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the foregoing, Americans still <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33768\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trust the media more<\/a><\/strong> than they trust the pathological liar in the White House. Funny, Trump has never tweeted about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nine months Donald Trump has been steering the country into something that more closely resembles a fascist dictatorship. His tendency toward a strict authoritarianism is evident in almost everything he does and says. And the fact that he has issued more executive orders at this point in his presidency than any president in fifty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,14,1,1200],"tags":[554,1135,430],"class_list":["post-35930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censorship","category-free-press","category-general","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-free-press","tag-polls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9lw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66129,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66129","url_meta":{"origin":35930,"position":0},"title":"Trump Marks His First 100 Days By Glorifying Why Most Americans See Him as &#8216;A Dangerous Dictator&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/29\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The authoritarian aspirations of Donald Trump have been evident since he first crawled out of the slime of his reality TV swamp, seeking to bail out his failing business empire. 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