Yup. Tucker Carlson/Steve Bannon are the new Glenn Beck/Alex Jones who were the new Rush Limbaugh/Lou Dobbs. That's the demagogue progression. The demagogues know that the audience/eggs are there, and if the demagogues provide the right incubation via messaging, they will become powerful beyond their wildest dreams in the form of wealth …
Yup. Tucker Carlson/Steve Bannon are the new Glenn Beck/Alex Jones who were the new Rush Limbaugh/Lou Dobbs. That's the demagogue progression. The demagogues know that the audience/eggs are there, and if the demagogues provide the right incubation via messaging, they will become powerful beyond their wildest dreams in the form of wealth and influence. The incentives sort themselves out for both sides. The demagogues get rich and powerful and the resentful audience finally finds a *community* of confirmation bias (like-minded individuals). That's the mutual agreement between both parties. GOP politicians capitalize off of these cults because they know these people are motivated voters, so as long as they get some red meat tossed their way via campaign virtue-signaling they will be a high turnout voting block for said politician.
Trump and most MAGA pols/candidates understand this new rule well: virtue-signal on conservative grievances and the incubated cults will turn out in high volumes for you. The demagogues capitalize off of the cults of grievance *they* build for money and influence, and the politicians capitalize off of the cults that the *demagogues* build for votes and donations. That's the GOP Grift Venn Diagram.
Yup. Tucker Carlson/Steve Bannon are the new Glenn Beck/Alex Jones who were the new Rush Limbaugh/Lou Dobbs. That's the demagogue progression. The demagogues know that the audience/eggs are there, and if the demagogues provide the right incubation via messaging, they will become powerful beyond their wildest dreams in the form of wealth and influence. The incentives sort themselves out for both sides. The demagogues get rich and powerful and the resentful audience finally finds a *community* of confirmation bias (like-minded individuals). That's the mutual agreement between both parties. GOP politicians capitalize off of these cults because they know these people are motivated voters, so as long as they get some red meat tossed their way via campaign virtue-signaling they will be a high turnout voting block for said politician.
Trump and most MAGA pols/candidates understand this new rule well: virtue-signal on conservative grievances and the incubated cults will turn out in high volumes for you. The demagogues capitalize off of the cults of grievance *they* build for money and influence, and the politicians capitalize off of the cults that the *demagogues* build for votes and donations. That's the GOP Grift Venn Diagram.