That title above is a quote from a Driftglass article posted four days ago, so the idea is not unheard of, just not reported on. In fact the opposite is being sold these days
Frances Langum @ Crooks and Liars called out the msm’s revisionist style journalism last fall with this clarion call:
Don't You Dare Call It 'Trump-ism'
Driftglass highlight’s the work of Bluegal (Frances Langum) to say what the msm and too many journalists are not saying:
Once again, corporate media power, wrapped in baroque gibberish, is being brought down like a hammer on an inconvenient truth.
See if you can spot it!
With various video clips within the links and some great writing, Driftglass has done this country another service.
Trump is The Party and The Party is Trump
— that party is the GOP,..
... yet here are the sources cited by Driftglass:
From The New York Times:
Trumpism Without Trump: A Losing Formula in Swing-State Virginia
Democrats send Trump and Trumpism a firm message with election night thrashing
OBAMA CELEBRATES VICTORIES OVER TRUMPISM AND THE GOP IN VIRGINIA AND NEW JERSEY
Trumpism Without Trump Doesn’t Work
Ed Gillespie’s loss shows Donald Trump has made Trumpism toxic
Trumpism Without Trump
Is Tom Cotton the Future of Trumpism?
From (sigh) Crooked Media, who should damn well know better:
A BODY BLOW TO TRUMPISM
The Note: It's Trumpism vs. the Democrats in Virginia governor's race
Driftglass on the msm coverage of the elections:
Once again, the actual, racist, paranoid, rage-drunk Republican Party as it has existed for my entire adult life has all but disappeared from the media's tale of what happened last night. Disappeared and replaced with a wholly fictional Comforting Beltway Fairy Tale which the media and the Serious Minds of American Conservatism would much rather blather on about.
— yes; those “Serious Minds of American Conservatism” are now not only invited and appearing regularly on the previously demonized “liberal Media” outfits, but have been allowed to absolve themselves by furthering this Beltway fairy tale
— the entire Driftglass article is well worth reading to catch up on the quality of the product corporate media and beltway punditry is selling
Once again we are witnessing a sharp uptick in the official word-salad doublespeak used to avoid talking about the Republican party base because the simple and obvious explanation behind yet another repulsive Republican phenomenon -- that fact that Donald Trump did not manufacture the racist meathead base of the GOP but was manifested by the racist meathead base of the GOP -- is too fatally incriminating for the corporate media to permit.