Kyle HooverDonald Trump and the Rise of Alt-Reality Mediaverified_publisherPOLITICO - By CHARLES SYKESEarlier this year, I argued that the conservative movement did not merely have a Donald Trump problem—it had a media problem. As Trump slouched toward the nomination, he was backed by a conservative media that had successfully created an alternative reality bubble around his candidacy. When Trump …
Kyle HooverDear hard-working white people: Congratulations, you played yourselfverified_publisherSalon - By D. WatkinsYou aren’t going to make any extra money under Donald Trump, so I hope your racism, or your attempt to ignore it, keeps you warm at night. OK, we have all gotten the memo that it's not cool or politically correct to yell “I hate the blacks, I hate the Mexicans and I hate the Jews!” But seriously, …
Kyle HooverDonald Trump actually has very little control over green energy and climate changeverified_publisherSalon - By Emily Schwartz GrecoThis piece originally appeared on BillMoyers.com. Yes, there are reasons to fear an impending environmental disaster: Donald Trump has spent much of his campaign claiming the mantle of climate-change-denier-in-chief, and his vice-presidential running mate isn’t much better. Now they are mulling …
Kyle Hoover5 takeaways from Trump's first 5 daysverified_publisherPOLITICO - By Glenn ThrushThis is what winging it looks like, America. Donald Trump is compulsively improvisational and ran the most successful back-of-the-napkin operation in American political history, but the challenge confronting him is, by his own admission, nothing like anything anybody has ever faced. Like practically …