Trump and right-wing media divert attention from bad viral news to alternative realities

All of which said that the news was not good for President Trump. Death and despair threaten to swallow hopes of his re-election. A CNN poll found Tuesday that most Americans (54%) believe that the US government did a poor job of preventing the spread of the virus. And the majority (52%) still think the worst is on the horizon.

It’s called “OBAMAGATE.” And as Tim Miller explained in his extraordinary work, the main principles of this theory are absurd: “The main thing is (a) when elaborated everything in one place it makes no sense on his face and (b) if anything, the deep-staters’ actions that should have been served in 2016 to help Donald Trump is politically, especially in the last weeks of the election when the FBI reopened the investigation of the candidate they were supposed to vote for, Hillary Clinton and later freed Donald Trump from what they thought he was doing in the New York Times. “

But while you may only dismiss it when Trump and his allies go berserk in an unreasonable way, you must know that there is a real effort to blow this up. Trump is clearly grumbling about it on his Twitter account and elsewhere. And although he can’t really explain it in a coherent way on Monday, his allies in the right-wing media intervene.

“While the mainstream press moves to other things or just mocked the president’s bizarre and outraged about the #Obamagate, right-wing media put their audience deeper into it,” Miller explained, adding, “The result is that President Trump can live in alternative reality of his own choosing. “

Will this help him with a wide audience? Frum didn’t think so, writing, “The consequences are here. The fairy tale Trump told Twitter won’t hide the consequences from the voters that Trump needs.” That may be true. But that will surely divert Trump’s base from the hard facts of coronavirus. And that seems to be the point.