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by true_religion 1846 days ago
It also hurts that Fox News, the most popular news channel, is owned by his political opponent in the conservative field.

All other news channels spent the last 4 years barred from even attending his press conferences so they can’t be on his side.

Finally, he spent his last weeks of his presidency alienating his most hardcore supporters (e.g. the proud boys, parlor). Had he thrown them the smallest of bones then they might still be on his side rather than feeling betrayed as they do today.

Basically all this show is if you aggressively shoot yourself in the foot, don’t be surprised to find you now have no foot.