While OANN is more than willing to push the pandemic as a New World Order-style plot, Fox News still has to maintain a semblance of "credibility" to appeal to its older GOP base that expects a national news network.

This create a niche opportunity for OANN.

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For Trump, this is an opportunity. His failure and culpability with the pandemic means he's looking for a front that will clean his record and blame his rivals.

OANN is more than willing to do that while Fox still has to exist in a reality that at least resembles our own.

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If that isn't enough to concern you, consider recent reports that Donald Trump Jr. is linked to an investment group looking to invest in OANN.

We're watching the establishment of Trump-run media, one of the final pieces in any authoritarian state.

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We have to understand. Nothing is static. The Right Wing is increasingly become more paranoid and more unhinged. Fox helped birth this, but they will eventually be replaced by groups like OANN who are more than willing to go further, even if it means fascism.

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Listen to what Trump says. He is very open about what he wants.

He wants media that worships him. He has openly lusted for North Korean-dystopian media that presents him as a living god.

This is what he's always wanted, and he's in the process of getting it.

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Trumpism won't just stop. It's increasingly moving further right and dragging the GOP and media along with it.

And there's a marketing/profit opportunity here. OANN and others will find that opportunity and drag America further into the abyss.

See it. Recognize it.

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