The death of objective, truth seeking journalism.
Western liberalism has hijacked the media to back its war mongering ‘liberal interventionism’ and to bring down their opponents on the left and the right. I had a gut feeling that the media and legal onslaught against Trump would backfire. The fact that these ‘Russia links’ had no evidential basis, meant that he could build the narrative of ‘fake news’ to cover up stories that were actually true. Because the media were bias, a disillusioned and sceptical electorate became attracted to the alternative to the ‘Washington swamp’ of politicians and the media that backed them. The very same conditions presented themselves in the UK with brexit and Farage. The Liberal media slavishly ridiculed opponents of the EU project. UKIP won over the disillusioned electorate who observed the bias and wanted to give the ‘Establishment’ Parties ‘a good kicking’. Once again the political Right could use the ‘fake news’ narrative and use the growing scepticism amongst populations about Politici...