Right Wing Media Outrage Bubble fools Republican lawmakers

The Right Wing Media Outrage Bubble is good for one thing - getting a devoted media audience.  It started with Rush Limbaugh and Roger Ailes, both dead now, and carried forward by screaming clones and dittoheads.  

The odd thing is that Republican Politicians don't understand that what gets a good sized audience on radio and TV does not get a majority of votes in elections.  If Hannity or Carlson get 3 - 4 million viewers, that's enough of an audience on cable TV to make them quite wealthy.  But Joe Biden got 81,000,000 votes in 2020.  That is a lot more than 4 million.  

So, Republicans are playing to the Right Wing Media Outrage Bubble rather than to real people.  The historian Heather Cox Richardson reveals the divide nicely:

"Americans as a whole do not like the policies of current-day Republican lawmakers. 

• Seventy-seven percent of us like the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, and yet not a single Republican voted for it. 
• Eighty-four percent of us like background checks for gun purchases, and yet that policy is anathema to Republicans.
• Seventy-nine percent of us want the government to fix our roads, bridges, railroads, and ports. 
• Seventy-one percent of us want the government to make sure we all have high-speed internet. 
• Sixty-eight percent of us want the government to replace our lead pipes, 
• the same percentage as people who want the government to support renewable energy with tax credits. 
• Sixty-four percent of us want to pay for these things by increasing taxes on corporations and big businesses.

Republican lawmakers oppose all of these popular measures." (Bullets added)

The Right Wing Media Outrage Bubble has no philosophy or policies, other than as brief lip service, but rather have only to prey upon the hatreds and fears of the more extreme elements of conservatives. Whip up the Base! Be proudly offensive and crude!  Own the Libs! And the politicians are ruled by the eye captivating propaganda circus rather than ideas or actual facts rather than disinformation and bullshit.

This is made confusing for Rep Lawmakers of course because the Former Guy only ever played to the Propaganda Circus and won in 2016 (kind of won, won the Electoral College, lost the popular).

There will not be a Trump successor runnning for office because the Former Guy is a one off - completely bat-shit crazy stupid loon.  WWF meets Godzilla.  You can't copy that.  And there is not really any Republican policy agenda that will get the MAGA crazies to the polls.

I think the Republican Party has had its last president.  The Former Guy will likely be in prison by 2024 as a result of a lifetime of corruption, fraud, and crime. And there will be no viable successor.