Many understand the movement and its range.. but the media has fallen in love with the tropes and stereotypes they have. We have seen people like the Koch's and Thiel, and the Mercers (no relation) throwing money at this for years. Seen highly educated and non-working class media people (and media corps) pushing it for years.
None of this is particularly a secret. I remember reading analyses of the Rightist/GoP rhetoric back in grad school in the early 90s that was pointing a lot of this stuff out.. about how it worked and why and about who was pushing it.
Many understand the movement and its range.. but the media has fallen in love with the tropes and stereotypes they have. We have seen people like the Koch's and Thiel, and the Mercers (no relation) throwing money at this for years. Seen highly educated and non-working class media people (and media corps) pushing it for years.
None of this is particularly a secret. I remember reading analyses of the Rightist/GoP rhetoric back in grad school in the early 90s that was pointing a lot of this stuff out.. about how it worked and why and about who was pushing it.