I don’t listen to much radio. There isn’t much radio to listen to where I Iive, and outside of a few shows like our own Kagro in the Morning, it seems that most talk radio is geared to a more fanatically conservative audience.
Apparently, that conservative audience has developed a taste for red meat that is so all-consuming, the Republican Party is growing concerned—as well they should be. A conservative radio host in Greenville, South Carolina, reported that on the day after Donald Trump’s call to ban all Muslims, all of those who called into his show did so in support of Trump’s position. For three solid hours they called the station to express support for banning Muslims. In America. Sadly, his was not the only show to see such support for Trump.
A decade ago, the Republican Party believed that talk radio was the perfect platform to convey its message to the millions of party faithful. When Barack Obama was elected, the Republican Party happily went along with—and even supported—the attacks that were made on the president by talk radio hosts. It dovetailed nicely with party leaders’ plans to obstruct every policy that he proposed.
It is doubtful that they ever expected those attacks to be turned against themselves.