Do we need a Democratic revolution to overcome the right-wing media machine?

Vladimir Putin understands better than Democrats and Democratic donors how to seize control of a nation.

And Democrats damn well better learn the lesson and fast.

Forget about the economy and even abortion. It's the media stupid.

When Putin wanted the Central African Republic to give him multiple gold and mineral mines in that resource-rich country,

the first thing his agent Yevgeny Progosian did was to buy a radio station and start running propaganda about the benefits of the

Central African Republic creating closer ties to Russia. Similarly when Putin wanted to

put Trump into the White House he had Progosian's internet research agency a massive well-funded

troll farm based in St. Petersburg, used swing state

polling and other internal RNC confidential

information to send more than a hundred million targeted

Facebook impressions to swing state Americans.

Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager in 2016 and a former employee who took over 10 million dollars from

one of Putin's favorite oligarchs handed that data off to Russian intelligence

leading in part to his going to prison. Trump pardoned him and is now talking about bringing him back into the

2024 campaign. 26 of Putin's IRA people were similarly indicted by the Mueller investigation,

although American law has not been able to reach them in Russia.

Another example is Russia's Putin and Hungary's Orbán.

In both cases, they used just as Trump is promising to do here if he is reelected,

libel laws to drive normal and progressive

radio, newspapers, and TV out of business

and replace them with the equivalent of Fox News, owned by friendly oligarchs, proclaiming the

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