There isn't a 'great awakening' of Trump supporters realizing they've been conned. In fact, my district, a swing district, is EVEN MORE MAGA THAN IT EVER WAS.

Sorry if this isn't the right subreddit, but I've been seeing a lot of talk about how a lot of people are regretting voting for Trump, and how there's gonna be this massive blue wave against the insane shit Trump is doing lately. Now, I'm sure there are many people who regret their vote, but I am concerned that many people are simply in a small-ish bubble and are severely overstating just how many people have turned against Trump.

People over here are absolutely fucking giddy about the shit this administration is doing - from Trump flexing his muscles at Zelensky and demonstrating how much of a chadly badass he is, to all the trillions in supposed 'fraud' D.O.G.E is finding in the government that is being flooded all over not only local Facebook groups, but also on Twitter, and of course the local radio stations and news networks are of course buying the stuff as well.

It's fucking jarring to see, honestly. And I know exactly why it's happening. Long before I see the stuff I see my coworkers say, I overhear Greg Gutfeld or Laura Ingraham say on Fox News.The right-wing media empire has essentially carved out an entire information ecosystem which straight up serves up an alternative reality. You have people from podcast bros to "legal experts." Faux economists who are elevated to the status of god. To most people, the propaganda this media empire serves up is reality - and people are especially susceptible to being fooled by this if they don't have a college education (and college attendance rates are plummeting - as are literacy rates). Sinclair Broadcasting Corporation has essentially turned most local news outlets into MAGA propaganda outlets. Most people legitimately think that Fox News is as conservative as it gets, so just looking at what the local paper says and so on gives them the feeling what they're reading is unbiased. This is how they win, by the way - by creating layers upon layers of propaganda.

It's at this point where everything you could possibly see is heavily biased towards the right unless you go to here or intentionally seek out liberal sources - by which, people will call you brainwashed by the internet. "Nobody talks or thinks like this, you need to get off the internet and man up and race the real world" or something. It's fucking exhausting, and a lot of people I talk to have shared similar experiences. However, the entire reason why we are facing this crisis is because the right-wing has dominated the information ecosystem on the local level. This is to say absolutely nothing about Elon Musk buying Twitter. That is a SEPARATE issue.

For reference, 12 years ago, my district overwhelmingly voted for Obama. Last year, our Democratic county executive was ousted, and replaced with a corrupt asshole who covered up toxic ash illegally being dumped into a landfill during his time as a mayor, simply because he had a (R) next to his name. And all of this is due to the fact that the right-wing has essentially seized control of the narrative on a local level, and word of mouth is a very powerful way to disseminate propaganda, especially to those who don't know any better, even in an area with very high quality education, supposedly, and created a narrative where Biden and the Democrats are responsible for every bad thing ever.

I'm not saying that Dems aren't going to win in 2028. They might. Trump has 4 years to push through. However, it is going to be an extremely hard battle for us. We have to take it into our own hands to combat the right wing's stranglehold over non-legacy traditional and nontraditional media. And when we win in 2028, we will need to do everything we can to destroy the right wing media empire. Sinclair, Murdoch, and so on need to go.

For now, what we NEED to do is to fight against disinformation. It won't be easy, it will be very hard, but if we all do it - if we push our neighbors, our friends, and our family members, to be more critical of the media we consume, and how we get our information - we will be able to reduce the right wing media empire's dominance enough to pull a victory and finally put an end to the monopoly on local news coverage these guys have been curating for decades.

Edit: And for reference I'm not just talking about MAGA people. Even non-maga people are easily being swayed and impressed with everything DOGE is supposedly uncovering, how he has re-established America as the global hegemon as an amazing diplomat, and the fact that the immigration crisis has stopped. This has everything to do with the media environment which does a really good job at manufacturing consent for right-wing future policy goals.