I thought Fox News was the biggest cable news channel and Sinclair media was the biggest local news conglomerate.
What's even the point. Ur-fascism dictates you have to be the perpetual underdog fighting against an enemy who is somehow simultaneously nefarious and dangerous, but also incompetent.
Ur-fascism dictates you must believe that we must return to a past. Not a specific past, not a past that ever really existed, but some ephemeral idea of the past, the "way things used to be", the way things were before the corruption.
Ur-fascism dictates that all truth and knowledge was handed down to us from our brilliant ancestors, and has just been degraded and perverted in modern times. If we can just return to the pure and true path, we can find enlightenment. Science cannot help us. Logic cannot help us. We cannot help ourselves. Only by following a single charismatic leader who can return us to the one right path, the path of our ancestors, can we be saved.
Reactionary thought takes many forms: Constitutional Originalism, Religious Fundamentalism, New Age Thought, Neoreactionary Monarchism, Paleo Diets, and so on
It's all the same thing. Abject fear of a complex modern life that seems incomprehensible. And instead of trying to understand the power structures that fuck over 99.9% of humanity, we look for the simple answer: return to the past. When things were better. We don't know when that past was, or what it entailed, but we have to get back there.
Maybe this is the apex of humanity's ability to self-organize. Maybe at this point too many people find the world too complex to be able to handle it, and just want to tear it down.
