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The final presidential debate was not a very significant political event, but it does crystallize a trend in recent American politics: the conservative collapse into their own information bubble.
The morning consensus on the debate seems to be that “both camps are happy with how their candidate did.” This is in stark contrast to the insta-polls showing lopsided victory margins for Biden. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/presidential-polls-trump-biden
The Trump campaign (and really his whole presidency) has been an extension of Fox News. And the story that Fox News is telling him is that he’s winning. This is not the case. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html
Trump is losing this race, and badly. Yet no Democrat I know is comfortable saying (or even thinking) that because of the traumatic memory of 2016. The lesson was to be distrustful of your information bubble.
Republicans, particularly Trumpists, however, were taught the exact opposite lesson: they think their information bubble is real, and everything else is fake.
The predictable outcome? A Trump re-election campaign strategy that plays well on Fox News and nowhere else. It’s why he’s losing, and yet he’s been tricked into thinking it’s his greatest strength.
Media bubbles are a helluva drug.
