Every time someone’s control of the narrative is disrupted....the disruptor is scoffed at and the disruptee sqawls and whines.....eras below by recall...
1. FOUNDERS - Broadsides and pamphlets.
2. Ante Bellum - Pro and anti slaver newspapers locally
3. Civil War - Start of independent correspondents working for many newspapers and increasingly exclusively for larger city papers.
4. Photographers and artists ibid.
5. Post Bellum - building use of nationally distributed newswires via telegraph and teletypes.
6. FDR - Radio
7. JFK - TV
8. Reagan - direct mail
9. Clinton era - rapid growth of conservative AM radio
10. Clinton Bush/Obama eras partisan cable and co-option of formerly broadcast only networks. Internet blogs.
TRUMP-Use of social media to disrupt/obsolete all former means of messaging and narrative creation. Out spinning the spinners.
Let Trump tweet. He has formed an army of 60mm+ and is crushing the old elite.
If he does not go Cromwell or Caesar on us, he is the last hope of the Republic.
But sadly, far too many on this side are more than happy to imitate the Obama Cult of Personality, and pretend that this President is the Savior, and is incapable of any improvement.
Off base.
Trump’s tweets about the Stone case were not disrupting the media narrative, nor disruptive to it. They WERE disruptive to Barr trying to do what the DOJ should do and Barr trying to make it clear that THAT is what he is doing, not merely acting to appease a political demand from Trump. Trump’s tweets make it look like Barr is lying, that Barr is actually just doing what the media thinks he is doing - running a political DOJ.