Plus, trump had to constantly tell his cult that the press was against him, when the press really gave him a pass.
You mean right-wing media to consume, right? Because that's what we're really heading for here - a nation of nothing but Fox News, Newsmax-style news programming.
You are advocating for it, whether you admit it or not. And what "free media" is going to hold Trump to account? Fox News and other right-wing sites that kiss his ass on a daily basis? Legacy media like The Washington Post and LA Times that were too scared to even endorse his opponent and so chickened out and endorsed no one? The New York Times whose bosiding is so ridiculous that there is a popular parody social media site making fun of it? Elon Musk has offered to buy MSNBC and turn it into a Trump-loving news station, and I bet you'd love that. So tell us, what "free media" is going to hold Trump 2.0 to account?
Me too. Where do you folks get your information?
I agree with this, but that's been true of Democrats for at least the last decade or so, even before Trump. And while it's definitely true that there is now a media double standard for Trump and his Democratic opponents, Democrats haven't done themselves any favors. If they invented a cure for cancer, they would somehow screw up the PR campaign so that they would have difficulty convincing many people to use it. The disconnect between the great popularity of most Democratic positions on abortion, gun control, promoting diversity (even "wokeism"), gay rights, and the relative unpopularity of so many Democratic pols is definitely worrisome.
On the outside, felt like they were shielding Biden from the media too much and none of the surrogates were effective at filling in on that particular message.
Joe Rogan?
No. There were lots of reasons people voted for Trump/against Kamala. The polling reflects some of the big ones, including cultural topics like transgenderism /gender dysphoria. I'm sure the fact that Kamala never disavowed her previous beliefs about taxpayer funded sex change surgeries for incarcerated illegal immigrants, played a roll.
He's not playing.
I strongly suspect that the "problematic perception" of the Democratic Party that you're referring to is that they support the rights of LGBTQ people, and given that many Americans vastly exaggerate the percentages of such people in our population Trumpers are convinced that Democrats won't stop until every schoolchild is undergoing secret taxpayer-funded gender affirming surgery. Which is nuts, of course, and is a lie fed by right-wing media.
MSNBC isn't what I would consider to be legacy media, though I have admittedly watched a grand total of about 4 hours of it in its entire existence (about the same for Fox News).
So it’s your premise that you can sit in judgment of “legacy media” while not actually viewing any content from legacy media sources like WaPo, NYT, CNN, NPR, CBS, NBC, ABC.
That's interesting, your take on fear.
It isn't. It's mostly opinions, just like fox.
They teased Xmail in February to a good bit of media oohing and ahhhing, then nothing except a lot of Gmail users stung by phishing scams claiming to be an opportunity to be among the first to transfer to Xmail and transferring all their Gmail credentials and info to the scammers.
Sure, there are R voters would take away the right for LGBTQ to marry. Those are people who are "confused" on what it means to have rights that can't be infringed upon by the government. There are legit racists, homophobes, transphobes, etc, but I don't think for a second there are 74 million or even half that and the broad-brush painting of all Trump voters (different than supporters) as being deplorables or garbage or a just a bunch of uninformed racists, xxxphobes, etc is why the Dem party is losing, IMO.