(February 6, 2017 at 11:35 am)CanOfMountainDew Wrote:(February 6, 2017 at 11:28 am)Aegon Wrote: Uh yeah, sort of. Gaslighting is a term in the poli sci community to describe the way populist leaders try to totally discredit the media so that the people get their information directly from the leader.
What is he supposed to do - tell everyone that the media that hates him is justified in hating him lol? The media seeks to discredit him and so he will seek to discredit them. Makes sense to me. I mean he could just go full dictator and ban all media that isn't government
The Media has not discredited him he has discredited himself. Don't shoot the messenger shoot the moron who keeps doing stupid shit that discredits him.
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