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Michael Beschloss: The Internet and Fox News and Its Imitators ‘Set the Stage for a Demagogue, Donald Trump, to Come in’

‘For most of American history, we might have had a demagogue run for president, but that person would have been stopped by a party structure’
By Grabien Staff
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BESCHLOSS: "That was possible because of this new technology. And particularly that cable network . So that set the stage for a demagogue, Donald Trump, to come in, 2016, use this technology — the cable network, websites that would amplify his message, reaching all sorts of people that Richard Nixon could have in 1974, and projecting a view of himself that was not true. A moderate, successful businessman. That’s what he campaigned as. The point I’m making is, for most of American history, we might have had a demagogue run for president, but that person would have been stopped by a party structure."

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