Both things can be true, but it’s funny that two opposite sounding replies came to this one comment about US politics.

    • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
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      Deregulation of radio, end of the fairness doctrine (thank u Reagan) and the subsequent rise of “local talk radio” sponsored by evil billionaires and spouting the vilest shit imaginable.

      which led directly to fox news and the tea party faction of Republicans and well, now here we are

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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      The 90s was when Republicans first began the scorched earth tactics against Clinton. It was when all the conspiracy theory shit started. They planted the first seeds of populism then.