Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg, who for years went on Fox News as an unpaid contributor, said this week that he is astonished by the "bubble" the network has created for its viewers.
Writing on his Hopium Chronicles blog, Rosenberg reflected on the way that Fox has created an alternate reality for its viewers that ensures they almost never have to hear a contradictory narrative.
"Fortified and protected by an enormous propaganda machine, the right lives a world of profound untruth and invention," he writes. "It is, to borrow from one of my favorite TV shows, Stranger Things, the upside down."
Rosenberg then reflected on the nearly two decades he spent appearing on the network, and he says it's gotten worse since he stopped appearing on it.
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"In this final days of my time there I had a few segments where the host brought up something for me to comment on that I literally had no idea what they were talking about and had to bluff through it on air," he disclosed. "It was as if MAGA had become a dialect of American English, using “alternative facts” and often obscure cultural references, which required translation."
He then linked that to former President Donald Trump's recent speeches, where he has appeared more confused than he was even in the days when he was rambling about injecting disinfectant as a cure for COVID-19.
"Trump is no longer, it appears even, trying to make sense when he speaks," he contended. "He is so far gone, and the movement is far gone, that you can’t even follow what he is talking about any longer. But this alternative world of untruth is not just a place where Trump lives, most of the Republican Party is there with him now."
