There’s a faulty meme going around that Trump won because he used social media so well. I thought that was the millennials’ best weapon.
Maybe a bunch of Russian trolls helped him but RW radio is what Trump is riding to the White House. It is their most effective tool for keeping the House and Senate Republican. Destroying that monopoly in the next two years is essential to getting the House and Senate back and putting a check on Trump.
There’s a lot of activism to put time and resources into but the Dem Party and progressive organizations have to try something different.
What happens when a guy sets up a soapbox down the street and for 15 hours a day calls your sister a whore, your brother a thief, and your ideas treasonous? If you don’t talk back, eventually some of your neighbors will believe him.
You can close your windows and put your ipods in your ears when you go outside, but he’s still there.
After Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 Republicans were able to spread a few hundred carnival barkers to every corner and stump in the country. For 30 years they have been attacking and lying about everything liberal.
The Stoprush and Flushrush efforts need to be expanded to ANY business, university, or sports team that does business with ANY rw radio station.
They all need to be shamed, shunned, and boycotted for their part in selling Trumpism for 30 years.
Our progressive organizations need to stop ignoring RW radio.
As I have been pointing out in previous diaries, I think the talk radio monopoly would not survive if some of the universities that support Limbaugh stations would start taking their mission statements seriously and started looking for alternatives. Advertisers would desert those stations.
That makes those schools good places to protest anything Trump.
But it needs to go farther than that. As the Trump and Republican extremism starts boiling up the next few months those stations are going to be even more essential to them. Those stations will lead the way helping them push through even more anti-democratic legislation to keep power. They will be used to excuse the racism, sexism, and hate. They will be used to attack Trump critics and Dem Reps trying to obstruct Trump.
There are thousands of national and local businesses and hundreds of schools keeping RW talk radio going. Those businesses and institutions need to be boycotted and shamed for their support until the only ones left are Trump defenders.