When Donald Trump attacked the media while appearing on the set of a Sean Hannity hosted

town hall, the Fox curated crowd went nuts. They cheered, stomped their feet, laughed and clapped.

What were they cheering for?

What exactly is it that they are against?

What do they oppose?

What is the media?

One way to think about it isn't through an ideological prism, but as a roaring rapid.

Anything that falls into it is swept away, taken by the river, immediately swallowed by the churn, and it's gone. It erases everything that is

tossed into it by taking it away, disappearing it. Isn't that how much of the American media functions today?

It runs like a children's soccer team and masks towards one event, say the war in Ukraine,

and then runs away just as fast careening towards another.

So on one day, Donald Trump talks about building

concentration camps, and then poof, it's gone from the conversation. And the next day,

he talks about arresting political opponents. And then poof, it's gone from the conversation. It's as if each day is a new,

disconnected, siloed reality television episode. In one moment, Meadloaf and Little John can be

great friends, and in the next, the most bitter of enemies.

But nothing occurs between the two to explain what happened and why what changed.

Isn't that what the media is? It is the projection of disconnected events chosen for their momentary ability to sensationalize,

to get clicks, to entice, to draw people in, and keep them from looking away.

And there has been no star greater in this era than a con man,

a hustler, a wannabe dictator named Donald Trump, who very narrowly took the presidency in 2016, and then was defeated by Joe Biden in 2020.

Well, let's understand Donald Trump's aspiration to be a dictator and broaden it out just a bit.

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