Clinton went over 200 days without a press conference. She relied on paid political advertisements while Trump was calling in daily to all the morning TV talk shows. He was saying outrageous things back then, lies today, but they got him coverage on the news.
Again, did you forget that the press GAVE Trump two billion dollars in FREE publicity?
When is the last time a Democrat was GIVEN free anything?
You sound like someone who still thinks that the press drops what they are doing when incumbent Democratic Party presidents want to talk to the people, like some Fireside Chat like in the days of FDR.
That world doesn't exist anymore Perotista.
The only people in office who get airtime are the ones with think tanks behind them, think tanks funded by megadonors connected to parent companies that happen to be big ad sponsors on the news networks.
The Kochs own a network of companies all of whom buy advertising time for their products on TV.
Have you taken a look at the
Project 2025 Advisory Board?![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/Slj8xId.png)
The only parallel was when the big industrialists in the Ruhr Valley finally decided that "National Socialism" wasn't really socialism at all and they finally opened their pocketbooks and bought themselves a dictator.
Sorry but this is not some "grass roots" phenomenon, it reeks of fash-tro-turf and you simply aren't smelling it because you're stuffed to the brim with potpourri.
