Shocking poll reveals 94% of Americans are traitors. Hopefully Mueller will see to their arrest and imprisonment
of course. First, the media health-care coverage number is nonsense given that Trump's and the GOP's dysfunctional efforts to repeal and replace the ACA have been major news just about every day for two months. So the 4 percent number makes no sense. Second, the NEWS media focuses on news--and Trump's collusion with Russia, or attempted collusion, if you like--and the investigations, are news. Big news. Third, newspaper reporters do not gather around a table every morning and ask, "Ok, what do people want us to write stories about today." They write about the news. Fourth, health care legislation affects Americans at a very practical level; the Russia scandal does not. That hardly means the Russia scandal is not extremely important. It is. Fifth, most Americans NEVER care much about foreign affairs outside of a war.
There is some truth to the idea that the Trump base--let's call them stubborn, old, angry white people in rural counties--remain loyal to Trump no matter how dishonest, corrupt, moronic and undemocratic he is. That's the allure of loud-mouthed con artists who spout a lot of bull$****--and Trump is quite attentive to his base. Why, he's partnering with hoteliers in the South on low-budget chains to capitalize on his popularity with the yahoo crowd--see the ProPublica article.
ProPublica is a very good and important public-service journalism site by the way. It specializes in cutting through the BS that we get from corporations and dishonest politicians like Trump and getting to the facts (which Republicans are always trying to obscure). Notice how Trump's organization tried HARD to keep its new hotel projects a secret.
You should be thankful to the media for exposing corruption. That is massively important--as when we learn that politicians are corrupt they can be voted out of office--Democrat or Republican. You have neither a free press nor free, fair elections in Russia. It is a dictatorship and longtime U.S. adversary--and so Trump's base ought to think long and hard about why Trump is SO, SO determined to be pals with Putin--a man who has had numerous dissidents and activists and journalists murdered.
This is why resisting Trump is important--he is a threat to the democratic institutions that TRULY make America great. Lying blowhards spouting nonsense don't make America great. Our institutions make America great--our independent judiciary, our free press, our elections, with which our adversary interfered. Trump has made it clear that he does not care about any of these--he has insulted judges; he tries to intimidate and bully the press, tries to obstruct Justice Department investigations; he has helped launder dirty Russian money. Not a good man--and a danger to our system.
