Republican political strategist Rick Wilson clobbered conservatives for believing "kook-right conspiracy sites" that have created a "filter bubble" blinding the right to reality.
Writing in The Daily Beast, Wilson noted the "golden age of journalism" as mainstream publications investigate President Donald Trump and his administration.
President Trump has been a "blessing for the national media," Wilson explained. "Trump combines uniquely newsworthy behaviors: a constant flirtation with the edges of the law; a clown-car administration staffed by the corrupt, the creepy, and the craven; and a temperament better suited to an asylum than to the Oval Office."
Wilson, the author of the new book, Everything Trump Touches Dies, had particular scorn for Trump supporters.
"Trump fans aren’t looking for up-the-middle coverage; they’re looking for partners in the fake news explosion that helped Trump win the election," he argued. "If being a Republican means buying into stories so obviously, barkingly insane that they sound like Roger Stone’s conspiracy rantings after a three-day meth bender, then we don’t have a political party; we have an inpatient mental health facility."
"To remind you once again, a meaningful fraction of Republicans believed that Hillary Clinton was running a global child sex and cannibalism ring from the basement of a Washington, D.C. pizza restaurant," he added.
Wilson slammed conservative outlets by name and referred to Fox News as "Trump State Television."
"Conservatives who legitimize the creepy authoritarianism, unalloyed racism, and apocalyptic religious and cultural war fantasies on the pages of Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, and the dog’s breakfast of other Trump fan “news,” they’re not building conservatism," he concluded.
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