The mainstream progressive media outlets, such as Salon and The New Republic, exhibit an intense and unrelenting hostility toward Donald Trump. All the major media outlets are drenched in contempt for the President. Their coverage rarely, if ever, acknowledges any positive aspects of his actions or policies. Instead, articles are crafted to attack him personally, portraying him as foolish or malevolent.
This goes beyond mere political disagreement; the rhetoric frames Trump as demonic or evil, with stories detached from reality and driven by visceral animosity rather than by balanced analysis. This fervor resembles the mindset of religious zealots confronting their enemies. I turn sixty-four today, and while I have known the mass media is establishment propaganda, I have never seen it this blatant.
The target is not just Trump himself; the tens of millions of Americans he represents are in the crosshairs: Christians, conservatives, and ordinary working people—those who desire a decent and patriotic society. By relentlessly attacking Trump, these outlets indirectly express contempt for half the population that supports him. They mean to demoralize the heartland by incessantly dragging the President. They don’t want the common man to have a political movement. They want them to stand on the sidelines and watch elites run society.
The media want this: for the Republican Party to turn away from its populist-nationalist roots and return to its globalist posture to be accepted by progressives. It must once more join hands with the Democratic Party and be the loyal opposition. (Many Republicans and Democrats are already holding hands behind MAGA’s back.) The danger of returning to the way it was before Trump is hard to exaggerate. And more than that, they want things to be the way they were on steroids.
At its core, progressivism embraces ideas and policies centered on expanded government control and corporate influence over society. Mainstream media, infused with progressive ideology, functions as propagandists for this corporate-state apparatus. Journalists and pundits position themselves as a kind of secular priesthood, preaching their doctrines with absolute certainty. They are joined by intellectuals in academia, nongovernmental organizations, and supposedly independent think tanks with corporate backers.
A striking irony emerges when examining the values professed by this constellation of sense-makers. Many of these individuals identify as atheists and secularists who champion reason and science above all else. There is nothing inherently wrong with atheism or secularism. I identify as an atheist myself. And I embrace secularism. Yet these atheists and secularists claim to uphold empirical truth while endorsing such irrational notions as gender identity theory—that a person can be born in the “wrong body” or that men can become women (and vice versa). Belief in gender souls is hardly the mark of a reasonable or scientifically minded man.
As I have shown in numerous essays on this platform, gender identity doctrine contradicts established biological science, which defines sex in binary terms based on observable, measurable criteria like chromosomes, gametes, and reproductive anatomy. Embracing such ideas requires rejecting or redefining scientific evidence in favor of ideological goals and social constructs, influenced and shaped by corporate and institutional pressures in academia and medicine. The propaganda around this is relentless.
Progressives display yard signs proclaiming “In this house, we believe in science,” yet their positions on issues like gender or virology, etc., reveal a selective adherence—really a rhetoric of science. This doesn’t enlighten the public, but confuses them about what science is.
When challenged—such as pointing out that only biological females (women) can become pregnant—they pivot to accusations of lacking “inclusivity.” Here, a political or supposed moral value is elevated above empirical reality. This dynamic mirrors religious behavior: scientific truth is sacrificed on the altar of an ideological tenet, treated as sacred and non-negotiable.
Trump and MAGA become evil incarnate because they stand on the ground of reason and science. This deeply offends progressives who have claimed this ground for themselves, not because they follow or even understand such things, but because wrapping themselves in scientistic language cloaks the reality that their ideology is instead akin to religion.
The common sense of the common man exposes the corruption of science in the hands of corporate state power. We see this in the loathing of Robert Kennedy and his demand for gold-standard science.
In essence, contemporary progressivism operates like a quasi-religion, complete with its own dogmas, moral binaries of good versus evil (defined through its lens), and intolerance for dissent. Critics are branded as heretics—bigoted, exclusionary, unscientific—while the ideology demands conformity under the guise of virtue.
This reveals not a commitment to reason, but a faith-like devotion to a set of progressive beliefs that clash with both traditional science and common sense. When not scientism, it is lies.
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