{"id":37699,"date":"2018-04-24T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T23:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37699"},"modified":"2018-04-24T16:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T23:35:30","slug":"fox-news-chugs-trump-kool-aid-the-only-way-forward-is-to-unify-behind-his-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37699","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Chugs Trump Kool-Aid: ‘The Only Way Forward is to Unify Behind His Agenda’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cable “news”<\/em> network that has distinguished itself as the most fawning propagandist of the Era of Trump is without contest Fox News. It’s programming and personalities are shamelessly sycophantic, disgorging White House propaganda 24\/7. Sean Hannity is even being referred to as Trump’s “shadow”<\/em> chief-of-staff. That’s when he isn’t being associated with alleged criminal activity and real estate fraud. But perhaps the most the beleaguered host on Fox News currently is Laura Ingraham. After attacking a teenage survivor of the Parkland school shooting, Ingraham has lost most of her advertisers and is hanging on to her job by the sheer stubbornness of the network bosses.<\/p>\n

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In response to the controversy, Ingraham is ramping up her idolatry of Trump. Since she isn’t earning the network any money, she may believe that pouring on some adoration of the President will help fortify her position. So on Monday night Ingraham took a hard right and lashed out at Republicans who she thinks aren’t sufficiently deferential to Trump. While the rest of the Fox roster is already hammering their usual Democratic targets, Ingraham is focusing on corralling the GOP herd into strict obedience to Dear Leader. That mentality leads to segments with soliloquies like this one (video below):<\/p>\n

“When will they learn? More than a year into Donald Trump’s first term, you’d think that all the Republicans would understand that the only way forward is to unify behind his agenda. It’s resonating with the American people. It’s bringing international foes to the negotiating table. And it’s having a positive impact on the economy. But some Republicans cannot help but lend aid and comfort to the President’s political enemies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“So as Trump slowly but surely begins to remake the GOP to be more responsive to working class Americans, the globalist wing of the party is still in total denial. And the old guard resistance to Trump – of course, big shocker – is being amplified by a media machine that’s been trying to take him down ever since he first came down that golden escalator.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You hear that Republicans? Get in line and stop thinking independently and representing your constituents. Your only duty is to follow the approved doctrine of the Trumpiate Politburo or keep your mouths shut if you can’t pledge unyielding loyalty.<\/p>\n

Ingraham’s call for blind fidelity to Trump is the sort of demand that is generally made by entrenched dictators. She is advocating a perverse brand of patriotism that flows through this administration. Just yesterday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered her version of this faith-based Trumpism by asserting that total dedication to Trump is synonymous with patriotism. She said<\/a><\/strong> that “Democrats have to decide whether they love this country more than they hate this President.”<\/em> In Sander’s view people can’t simultaneously oppose Trump and love America. In reality, people oppose Trump “because”<\/em> they love America.<\/p>\n

In addition to Ingraham’s command for compliance, she offered some reasons to persuade the supplicants. But each one was more ludicrous than the one before it. Trump’s agenda is absolutely not resonating with the American people. He is the most unpopular president in modern times. His policies are soundly rejected by wide majorities of voters. That’s why most political analysts are predicting a “Blue Wave”<\/em> at the polls in November. Ingraham’s assertion that Trump is bringing international foes to the negotiating table is a fantasy. His administration has not achieved a single foreign policy goal in over fourteen months. And her praise for the economy is striking on a day that the markets suffered a huge drop, and the Dow presently sits over 2,000 points below it’s high.<\/p>\n

These are not the metrics of a successful presidency that everyone should rally around. They are warnings of political catastrophe. A week ago Trump boastfully tweeted his standings in the rabidly biased Rasmussen poll:<\/p>\n

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Rasmussen just came out at 51% Approval despite the Fake News Media. They were one of the three most accurate on Election Day. Just about the most inaccurate were CNN and ABC News\/Washington Post, and they haven\u2019t changed (get new pollsters). Much of the media is a Scam!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n