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I agree entirely with this post. If the 2016 election was held in 2018's online environment, how would it have played out? Well, Trump would have lost handily. The media has clamped down HARD on everyone on the Right who isn't actually directly in office or a commentator on Fox News. I can definitely remember that there was real ENERGY behind the Trump phenomenon. People were riled up, commentators were coming out of the woodwork on YT and elsewhere online sticking it to the man. Now? There's a few diehards, but the wellspring has dried up. YouTube's demonetization lie strategem killed the idea that you could possibly make well-liked commentary on YouTube and earn money for giving your opinion -- Now that's only for the literati class that the media designates, and a few e-beggars on YouTube who rely on Patreon. And of course Patreon itself is in the very same pocket that's controlling the banks and the tech companies -- Start voicing opinions and realities that are too far outside the mainstream, too influential, too dangerous? You'll be cut off instantly.

A similar story can be told on Facebook. Thought you had reach or influence with your Right-wing / Conservative / Traditionalist groups or advertising? They've quickly put the kibosh on that. Anything you post is now strictly sandboxed, shadowbanned, downranked, or just not displayed. "It was the algorithm's fault!" We've seen the fallout with the midterm elections. Loss. Even against Hillary, the state of information in the US right now is so throttled by big tech, so beholden to the media companies, that Hillary of all people will win when she runs in 2020 unless action is taken soon.