David Paleologos
Suffolk University Political Research Center
Corrections and clarifications: This story has been updated to correct the years that Newsmax and OANN launched.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, most people have missed the shift of Trump voters away from Fox News and into the hands of Newsmax and One America News Network, two news outlets that are only 8 years old but in that short time have managed to greatly improve their standing in conservative circles.
While the average voter may be mostly unaware of these outlets, the Suffolk University/USA TODAY national poll of exclusively 2020 Trump voters offers key data points in what could be a seismic shift in the landscape of trusted news sources for conservatives in the country.
Several “national security experts” interviewed for an essay in
The Root published on Thursday, attacked the Republican Party, claiming it behaves “like a terror group,” is rife with “terrorist sympathizers,” and should be viewed as “enemy combatants.”
The essay, penned by senior reporter Terrell Jermaine Starr and titled “Democrats Are Stuck With a Republican Party Rife With Conspiracy Theorists, Anarchists and Terrorist Sympathizers,” begins by asserting that the GOP is “authoritarian” and only cares for whites.
“[W]e have an entire political party that has converted into an authoritarian albeit Americanized version style of politics that cares nothing about U.S. democracy or anyone who is not white,” the essay starts.
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