just finished reading Jeremy Peters summary for the NYTimes of what their radio pals are up to, along with Pirro and Dobbs. Seems less chaos, just the usual.

“There is a war going on right now,” he told his audience this week, adding, “They haven’t given up trying to destroy us.”

Their words echo those of the president himself, who once declared, “What you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening,” and beseeched his followers to “stick with us,” and not to believe what “you see from these people, the fake news.”

To me, though, it's this one quote that really hits the target. I use to be aghast at Limbaugh just for this one simple reason: why would anyone want to listen to someone for three hours a day tell you what to think about what's going on in the world? After umpteen imitators came about, I finally realized: There's a certain kind of person that finds actual comfort in hearing preaching, someone telling them what to think. About a simplistic world picture that is easy to understand, who is good, who evil, and tells them they're winners to be faithful followers of the one true narrative.  Whether it's a religious preacher or a Limbaugh:

“It’s victory at the expense of truth,” said Michael Harrison, the publisher of Talkers Magazine, which tracks the talk radio industry. The desire to win the argument and the election, he added, has resulted in media where “you don’t hear debate anymore; it’s just preaching to the choir.” 

some listeners get angry and act out, true. But I think most of those have moved to internet hate groups gathering places, that's become more ground up with no leaders telling them what to think and believe. I think what's left of this right wing audience as to TV and radio is more like people getting their fix of "people like me", which means people who like a certain sermon to make sense of the world.

And there's a lot more victim thinking creeping in this demographic all the time. Which makes me think that if Trump ends up being removed, this isn't the type of demographic that will rise up in anger, rather they will wallow in further victim fantasies. And listen to their favorite preacher for even more hours per day;.