By Libby Emmons, Commentary | The Post Millennial
Democrats are unhappy about their electoral loss and they’re still trying to figure out how it happened. They have blamed voters, pollsters, Joe Biden, each other, and now they have decided that their lack of alternative media in the parallel economy model of the right is to blame. “We got killed in alternative media,” said Stuart Perelmuter in a new article out from The New York Times. Perelmuter has been “contemplating” some kind of alternative Dem influencer group. “Republicans have been investing in that space for years. And on the left we have treated creators who are not in legacy media as gig workers.”
Perelmuter is one of many left-wing progressive influencers who complained to The Times that the Democrats aren’t doing enough to fund their efforts while others claim that their side needs to launch an organization to rival founder Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA or create a media outlet like The Daily Wire, which publishes news, runs podcasts, makes films and even has launched children’s programming.
But they are missing one key thing: the right-wing media eco-system came into being as a reaction against the left-wing controlled mainstream media outlets in news, the stranglehold Democrats had on Hollywood, and the overwhelming progressive infiltration of leading academic institutions. If there had been openings for the kind of content conservatives crave in any of these areas, if there had been fair news coverage, if there had been balance in education, if there had been room for people with opposing views, it is likely that The Daily Wire, TPUSA, would not have grown so greatly as they have because conservative consumers would have had options. The lack of options gave conservative content creators one more thing: passion.
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