Conservatives are very loyal. You just don’t want to betray that loyalty.
FoxNews was smart, for a long time from a business standpoint. While everyone else was busy trying to compete with each other to expand their niche in the leftist demographics, Fox was taking everyone else. Not only did they forget their market economics, I think they far underestimated how much they were getting fed back to them out of loyalty, and they ruined it.
Trust, once broken, is almost impossible to regain.
Fox thought it could stab its loyal viewers in the back and get away with it. They are about to feel the consequences and pain of collapsing ratings, which will lead to falling revenues.
I don’t think Fox even now realizes how much trouble the network is in. They’re in denial.
This is a message the GOP scoffs at with derision. They think they can continue to treat conservatives like a pile of dirt and get their support. Up until Trump that was true, even some on FR would let Mitt McRomney spit right in their face and tell them to go to hell, then go on rants on FR how we angry conservatives had to support the Republican nominee or its Armageddon!
Trump has shown conservatives a new way. He kept his promises, almost always sided with conservatives in his fights with the Democrats, media and even the GOP. We know there is an alternative to being taken for granted, the GOP better get religion or their days are numbered. With the crooked elections they are anyway at this point.