(August 4, 2021 at 9:14 am)Spongebob Wrote: I'm glad that you mentioned the history of conservative radio, which deserves a thread of it's own. You are absolutely right, decades of hate radio took its toll despite Hillary being a solid liberal politician. Her political and economic positions were not outside the already established territory of the DNC, but for some reason that I've never been able to pinpoint, the GOP just absolutely HATED her and Bill, from the moment Bill was elected President. The campaign of character assassination that conservatives levelled on them was unthinkably evil. Perhaps they just feared the potential the couple displayed and feared they would turn the electorate into a Democratic voting machine for decades to come, like a new FDR. By all rights, we should have had eight years of Hillary Clinton from 2008 - 2016, which would have put the couple in an almost unreachable position of historic power.
I keep hoping I'll wake up to the greatest news story in years, Donald J. Trump has died of a heart attack. Then we can all breath a sigh of relief, but of course ten seconds later we will all jump into the fray of "Damn that DeSantis"!
As someone from a place called Hope, I believe Hillary is far less a politician and leader than Bill. She was a bad choice for nominee. She wasn't even that good an attorney.
I agree that hate radio grew from fear of Bill's success and became the propaganda machine that excreted Trump.