Trump got more votes than Clinton!

1998 House vote to impeach Bill Clinton: 228 votes

2019 House vote to impeach Donald Trump: 230 votes

Congrats Donnie, you deserve it!

He's their golden boy

Friday TOONs 1 - The Accidental Comedian

Breaking: Compromising Video of Melania Trump and Devin Nunes

Devin "Caroline" Nunes

There were others before Rush...

Bob Grant, Barry Farber, Joe Pyne, and others, in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. I know Grant, who was NYC-based, gained a following far outside his station's normal broadcast range due to late-night shows. At night the atmosphere bounces AM signals in a different way than during the day, and form what I've heard Grant could sometimes be picked up as far as eastern Ohio.

By the early 80s, thought, AM radio was in decline as more and more things moved to FM frequencies. Stations needed to fill time, talk radio was relatively cheap, and call-in formats allowed a level of interactivity that was relatively unique at the time. Them during that time, deregulation lifted some of the restrictions on media ownership, making it easier to have the same shows play live in different markets.

Combine that with elimination of the Fairness Doctrine, and it created conditions ripe for someone like Rush to flourish. Combine that with his rallying the conservative faithful after Bush lost the 92 election, treating Clinton's plurality win as if it were merely technical and wasn't really legit.

Combine those with other conservative media that had been built, like The Washington Times in 1982, and Roger Ailes bringing his Nixon-era idea of GOP-TV to life as FOX News in 1996, plus hundreds of conservative religious stations, and that propaganda becomes the background radiation which affects everything.

We talked about impeachment.... (Beau of the Fifth Column)

Full on "LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!" chants heard throughout the crowd at Nats Park

And now his pals the Russians are undercutting him

Hmmm. Multiple violations of security protocols, extreme recklessness with classified materal...

I suppose we can expect the rest of the Republicans to start chanting "LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP!" in... lemme check my watch... 5, 4, 3, 2, never.

One of the go-to people about this is David Neiwert

He's a journalist who's been covering right-wing extremists since the 80s. He has a number of books, hundreds of articles and still more hundreds of blog posts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Neiwert

https://www.splcenter.org/search?keyword=david+neiwert

https://crooksandliars.com/solr/david%20neiwert?solrsort=created%20desc

https://www.dailykos.com/user/David%20Neiwert

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/