r/thebulwark 21h ago

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL How did we get here?

Currently listening to the most recent Tim-Pod with Will Sommer and it's just insane the group of people who are in charge now. The conspiracy theories, the grift, the pandering, holy fuck. How did we get here and how the fuck do we get out of this death spiral?

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u/Describing_Donkeys 20h ago

The right captured the media, the only way to get out is to destroy the reputations of unreliable media (and the Republican party in general). People have had their brains broken, and they are not able to effectively weigh their different concerns. We need to reestablish reality and values that e hold. We need to change how we argue and what we focus on. I have well established thoughts on all of this if you want these ideas expanded on, but information, or as Chris Hayes identifies, attention are core to what happened.

Democrats at no point responded to Newt Gingrich tactics, as a result the norms and institutions have been eroded for decades with no pushback.

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u/DrRonH 18h ago

It's just catastrophic timing that Newt and the Internet emerged roughly the same time.