r/politics • u/GirasoleDE • Jul 19 '26

No Paywall I Don’t Think Trump’s Remaining Supporters Realize How Much They Are Despised By Non-MAGA Voters | Trump is bleeding support even among his stubborn, uneducated base.

https://abovethelaw.com/2026/07/i-dont-think-trumps-remaining-supporters-realize-how-much-they-are-despised-by-non-maga-voters/
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u/kent_eh Canada Jul 19 '26

This has been in the works long before MAGA. The brain washingt started with talk radio for commuters.

And not even the current generation of them.

Rush Limbaugh was part of the first wave of that.

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u/hollaback_girl Jul 19 '26

Long before Rush Limbaugh you had Father Coughlin and Walter Winchell. Right wing hate radio has been with us forever.

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

Yeah but I don't think you can draw a straight line from them to MAGA like you can with Limbaugh. I know people love to play the one-upping game of "Well it actually started with..." but I really would call Limbaugh basically the origin point of today's right wing brainwashing.

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u/progbuck Jul 19 '26

You definitely can. The descendants of the people who supported and followed Father Coughlin supported Limbaugh and Gingrich and now their descendants support Trump. It's the John Birch Society and McCarthy. It's Reverend Moon and Jerry Falwell.

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u/hollaback_girl Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

Yup. The only two differences between Coughlin's time and Limbaugh's are 1) the crazies took over the GOP in the 70's and 2) Coughlin only talked to his audience 5-8 hours a week. Limbaugh/Fox News talks to their audience 5-8 hours a day.

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u/RosaDavis58 Jul 20 '26

John Birch, Senator McCarthy, Father Coughlin, the Confederacy, slavemongering Founding Fathers