Why Trump s negative press spurs millions to like him even more HotAir

In fact, Trump has succeeded and will likely continue to succeed not in spite of the media campaign against him, but, at least in part, because of it. Voters have grown wise to the media agenda, and recognize stories crafted to fit a certain mold rather than to follow the facts. They know what a smear looks like, and they don t like it. At the same time, the ceaseless onslaught has made Trump a permanent underdog. And Americans identify with and cheer for underdogs an aspect of the national psyche that media and political elites, detached as they are, forget.

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