Hungarian Dictator Instructs U.S. Right Wing: You Must Have Your Own Media

I’m not sure this is something the U.S. hard-line right-wing doesn’t already understand.  Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, and the others don’t exist by accident.

Look at Vladimir Putin.  How far do you think he would have gotten in Ukraine if the common Russian people had access to anything but pure bullshit?

Of course, Americans, for the time being at least, can open the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal.  They can tune into some semblance of the truth on TV, or choose a website that seems to do a good job.

Having right-wing media outlets is a necessary condition for political success of would-be dictators, but will it be a sufficient one?  We’ll see.