• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Private media panders to the source of its revenue, which is private industry.

    Silicon Valley is tilted hard right. Wall Street is hard right. US Heavy industry is hard right. Consumer manufacturing/shipping is economically right wing, even when its occasionally got social liberal pastiche.

    Trump’s made himself the singular conduit through which private industry lands the trillions in public spending. So private industry bows to him.

    If we were in a country with a heavily socialist economic system, the game would be different. Cubans aren’t getting an earful about how cool Steven Miller is. Nicaraguan bureaucrats have no need to appease Elon’s DOGE teams. Nobody in South Africa is producing hagiographies for Pete Hegseth.