General Discussion

They both had legitimate political experience and were capable and, in practice if not in rhetoric, worked within the legal and political norms (electoral cheating aside, anyway) and respected and worked with democrats.

The media appropriately slammed Nixon for his involvement in watergate, and for the most part, tagged Reagan with the many scandals of his time in office, and mostly gave Clinton much of the boost it gave Reagan as Clinton also had that generational charisma.

Foxnews changed the script, reframing everything, and the msm simply followed their lead, covering mostly just the issues foxnews wanted, using the terms and style of debate and catchphrases foxnews wanted, etc.

That's the problem.

I'm not talking about the government banning foxnews, the pressure has to come from the people, and it would be nice if a billionaire or two stepped up and did the right thing.