Half of Trump's voters say it should be easier for the powerful to sue the media

Rss@dailykos.com (hunter) · Tuesday, December 20, 2016, 10:46 pm

The best part of this story is that there is no way in hell even one-tenth of the people opining on this one have an actual, thought-out argument for their position. It's just another case of Donald Trump saying a thing and his supporters parroting it back to pollsters.

Around half of self-identified Donald Trump voters said in a survey this week that courts should make it easier for public figures to sue the media.

In the Glover Park Group poll, conducted by Morning Consult, 49 percent of respondents said that courts should make it easier for public figures to sue the news media for unfavorable or false coverage.

This was, during the previous eleventytwo political campaigns anywhere in America, as close to a nonissue as could be. No "white working class voters," anywhere, had two neurons worth of opinion on whether or not rich powerful people were being too oppressed by the media—until Donald Trump said so.

So there you go. Thank goodness it's only 49 percent: given Trump's other campaign trail stances, we’re lucky there is not majority support for jailing the media outright.

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