This quote is from Trump: A Brawler for Democracy:
A large part of the electorate so thoroughly defected from the authority of the established media and related elites that it thought anybody with Mr. Trump's enemies couldn't be all bad.
Here's more from Mr. Jenkin's article to provide some context:
As this column judged early and often, nobody needed to instruct Vladimir Putin's trolls to promote the Trump boomlet once it emerged in 2015. It was exactly the kind of democratic unseemliness the Kremlin's troublemakers exist to exploit. Whatever Russia's effect, it was trivial in the end. It did not conjure 63 million votes for Mr. Trump-votes that came to him despite an onslaught of innuendo, vilification and authentically disgraceful material covering every aspect of his life, from his sex habits to his racial attitudes, to his business practices and even his alleged eagerness to commit treason with Russia.
The real lesson is the one many continue to ignore: A large part of the electorate so thoroughly defected from the authority of the established media and related elites that it thought anybody with Mr. Trump's enemies couldn't be all bad.
Yeah. That's sounds about right.
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1:53 PM 7/28/2019
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