Questions about the efficacy of NRO's #AgainstTrump effort only serve to underscore the utter abdication of non-"elite" gatekeepers.
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Perhaps a niche beltway publication, even a movement flagship, doesn't hold sway over the party anymore. Perhaps it never did. But who does?
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If the past 25 years are any lesson, it's radio the radio talkers who command the ears and attention of the base of the base.
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For the last decade (or more), radio voices have used the DC elites as a foil & set themselves up as the sole arbiters of True Conservatism.
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That's fair enough as far as it goes- perhaps feckless elites deserved to be laid bare. But this makes radio a first & last line of defense.
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Which means than when a charlatan like Trump comes along, it's that much more important for Rush et al to play their gatekeeping role.
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But Trump pushes the same buttons radio has relied upon for years- there was a genuine affinity, not to mention a conspicuous profit motive.
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@LPDonovan Trump cultivated personal relationships w/ top talkers for years -- much different than if somebody new had burst on the scene.
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