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2017-02-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-03 05:15|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 A preference cascade.
The people finally caught on that they were not alone.

I think Brexit really launched Trump's turn out with a kind of "Look what they did" response and they identified Hillary with the globalist elite that had just been rejected.

Posted by AlanC 2017-02-03 08:33|| 2017-02-03 08:33|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd point to the rise of alternative media outlets.

The MSM has always been in the business of telling people what they should think and believe. But as their reach declined, so did their power to influence people.

Combine that with the globalist Left's over-reach especially in relation to immigration, and many people found they no longer believed what they were being told to believe.

Posted by phil_b 2017-02-03 15:06|| 2017-02-03 15:06|| Front Page Top

#3 As de Havilland put it: "so certain was the Left that they had won the culture war, so confident with the established media under their effective control that ‘truth’ was theirs to declare, that they gave up on any pretence of objectivity. And so they began to maneuver with the assurance and arrogance of an army under an umbrella of complete air(wave) supremacy, a supremacy that suddenly proved to be illusory".

Posted by Pappy 2017-02-03 19:13|| 2017-02-03 19:13|| Front Page Top

#4 The Dirt People were listening.

The leftoids (the smart ones) will be more careful next time.

(Yes, leftoids can be smart when it comes to getting and keeping power.They just suck at doing anything useful with it once they have it..)

Posted by charger 2017-02-03 19:28|| 2017-02-03 19:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, leftoids can be smart when it comes to getting and keeping power.

And to be fair, their corpse count is off the scale. With all those broken eggs, we should be up to our ears in omelettes by now.

Posted by SteveS 2017-02-03 20:00|| 2017-02-03 20:00|| Front Page Top

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