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Not surprisingly, Fox News is greedily clinging these deranged deadenders. They are the most militant flank of the Republican Party. They are the violent seditionists who assaulted the Congress on January 6th. And they are what Fox News views as the core of their audience that they cannot afford to lose. Since November Fox’s ratings have suffered a sharp decline<\/a><\/strong>, putting them in third place behind CNN and MSNBC. Once loyal viewers, including Trump, have changed channels to smaller and even more extremist competitors like Newsmax and One America News Network (OANN).<\/p>\n For that reason, Fox News isn’t taking any chances with the audience they have left. However, they have to walk a fine line between unflinching loyalty to the Trump cult and keeping a distance from their most rabid disciples. Fox News has already made programming changes<\/a><\/strong> aimed at shoring up the conspiracy theorist demographic. At the same time they canceled Lou Dobbs<\/a><\/strong>, one of Trump’s most sycophantic boosters.<\/p>\n In keeping with their desperate and conflicted position, Fox News just published an article<\/a><\/strong> on their website that sought to put space between themselves and the Trump-loving QAnon kooks. The article falsely asserts that the media and Democrats have formed a pact to tarnish Republicans by sharing “the talking point that the Republicans are the party of QAnon.”<\/em> The truth, however, is that Republicans are doing that all by themselves. The article employs a preposterous comparison, saying that…<\/p>\n “QAnon folks were Trump backers, but to equate that with the Republicans writ large is a bit like saying the Democrats are communists because factions of the old Communist Party USA endorsed a strategy of voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016.” […]<\/p>\n “No one ever would ask the Democrats to explicitly denounce the Communist Party endorsement because it’s ludicrous anyone would assume Democrats and Communists are the same thing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n First of all, no Democrat has ever promoted the Communist Party. And if asked they would vigorously renounce it without hesitation. Which is distinctly unlike how Republicans pander to QAnon. However, the author implies that it would be unthinkable to imagine Republicans equating Democrats with communists. Apparently he hasn’t been listening to Trump, who has frequently accused Democrats<\/a><\/strong> of “want[ing] to turn America into Communist Cuba.”<\/em><\/p>\n More to the point, Republicans are the ones who have equated themselves with QAnon. Democrats had little to do with it. The GOP has members of Congress who openly describe themselves as followers of Q. Others refuse to denounce the obvious madness of the movement that believes Democrats and journalists are sex-trafficking baby-eaters. Trump himself is among those who failed to renounce QAnon, saying that “I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate […] These are people that love our country.”<\/em><\/p>\n President Trump on QAnon movement: "I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate." pic.twitter.com\/qPMq3R0Xgs<\/a><\/p>\n — CSPAN (@cspan) August 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n