The conversation wasn't about the MSM, but still...
> Nearly 100% of the mainstream media was against the person who ended up being elected.
Including Fox News and other right-leaning news outlets? I would suspect that for people who voted for Trump their news content was close to 100% in support of him, with negative news and polling basically either ignored, minimised or re-framed as being another sign of "the elites" being contemptuous and/or scared of Trump and by extension his supporters.
Why would you assume that people are consuming political news they don't like when every indication is that they don't? You even say this yourself later on in the post:
> Instead people who are partisan focus exclusively on one side and simply pretend the other does not exist.
When you consume content that is unabashedly partisan in nature you are far less likely to subject it to any kind of critical analysis, and even small amounts of reinforcement from other sources you align with can give enough credibility to establish a particular "fact". See pizzagate or the Q-anon conspiracy theories for instance.
> Nearly 100% of the mainstream media was against the person who ended up being elected.
Including Fox News and other right-leaning news outlets? I would suspect that for people who voted for Trump their news content was close to 100% in support of him, with negative news and polling basically either ignored, minimised or re-framed as being another sign of "the elites" being contemptuous and/or scared of Trump and by extension his supporters.
Why would you assume that people are consuming political news they don't like when every indication is that they don't? You even say this yourself later on in the post:
> Instead people who are partisan focus exclusively on one side and simply pretend the other does not exist.
When you consume content that is unabashedly partisan in nature you are far less likely to subject it to any kind of critical analysis, and even small amounts of reinforcement from other sources you align with can give enough credibility to establish a particular "fact". See pizzagate or the Q-anon conspiracy theories for instance.