TheForge wrote:
I wouldn't say he is racist or crazy as much as an opportunist and bizarre. Have you ever listened to Breitbart news at length or even read their news at length? I described my experience with here a while back, long before Trump won or Bannon was officially on trumps team.
Here is my observation:
1. Sensational, nationalistic and populist.
2. Definitely plays to a low common denominator.
3. Echoes far right paranoia.
4. Focuses on isolated events as though they are the norm.
5. Overly optimistic when evidence is to the contrary. For instance, the night before the republican primary in Wisconsin they seemed to believe that Paul Ryan's challenger stood a good chance of winning and it was a game changing event. Yet no credible data suggested Paul Ryan was in any risk of losing and he ultimately won primary by a big amount. Paul Ryan won 84% of the vote.
They definitely play to a narrow audience of rural, blue collar americans, most callers are truck drivers.
It definitely reminds me of Bizarro world in Superman, but I wouldn't call it racist, nor do I think nationalism is synonymous with racism.
If you take a look at the demographics of visitors to Breitbart you will find that a majority of the viewers are female with some college education. It's the 40th most popular website in the US. I think people, mostly the lefties, can't comprehend how anyone with intelligence can differ from their ideology therefore visitors to Breitbart must be stupid and uneducated, which is definitely not the case.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."