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Mathieu Bock-Côté: "Trump and the bankruptcy of media power"

2020-11-06T18:32:59.275Z


CHRONICLE - In contact with Trump, the vast majority of the American media have become radicalized. It was under his administration that concepts such as white privilege or systemic racism became normal.


For 24 hours, the progressive commentary was afraid.

Very scared.

It was because he had convinced himself that the election of Trump in 2016 was a historical aberration, which it would now be possible to correct, by burying him in 2020 under a blue wave.

However, she did not come.

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Biden will ultimately win, although the legal battle could make things last.

But this victory disappoints the commentariat, which did not want only to win, but to crush, to purge America of the evil which had seized upon it and to close the Trumpian parenthesis.

Then reality hit him in the face.

He discovered that a large part of the electorate does not think like him.

Among Trump supporters, some accused pollsters of manipulating public opinion.

The accusation is wrong.

The survey instruments developed in the peaceful societies of managerial democracy are ill suited to the study of the deep currents of opinion at a time of global warming.

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Source: lefigaro

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