I am sure there is a lot of cross traffic between here and thedonald.win, myself included, although I only lurk there. I've been lucking since before the 2016 election, before reddit even banned the original subreddit.
Since the election there has been a huge number of election fraud posts, and while some of them certainly seem to have merit, there are plenty that don't. As a consequence I see posts that call for "low energy pedes" to leave, or Republicans (that aren't Trump supporters) to leave, etc. I fear that the signal to noise ratio is too low, and it makes it too easy for the MSM to ignore.
I have my own theories about what happened with the election, why, and how, based on what I've read, that I hope are reasonable, but my title question is an important one. It also asks other things. Is the Trump movement growing or shrinking? Are reasonable voices being driven away who really want to sort the fact and fiction? Are we all deluding ourselves?
Signal to Noise Ratio. and Fear Uncertainty Doubt.
My concern with the SNR and the MSM has to do with the fact, like it or not, that they dominate the conversation, and are the principal source of information for enough people that they caused Trump to lose. It wasn't the only factor of course, but a large one.
I'm struggling, and fear for my children's future.
The MSM still have some power, I don't deny that. "Caused Trump to lose", I'm not so convinced. But I won't deny that 4 years of MSM propaganda can cause some people to rally against the target. But that being said, you're looking at the problem wrong. They've never been this week. They weren't this week in the days of radio. The Mainstream Media hasn't been this weak since the late 1800's. Hollywood's never been this week. Never. These are wings in a long war, even if they're more costly than you'd hope.
As for your kids, you will make your children's future by hand. Don't rely on it to be crafted for them. They will have to fight for it, and you must teach them to fight.
A tangent, but I have to ask: do the TD lads have a compiled resource for this kind of data? We've been having information-based skirmishes for years now online, and I think it's essential for any online community under attack to develop a widespread understanding of things like shilling, disinformation, and trolling.
I come from /pol/ territory, and while a lot of their ideas are considered unsavory, they had some fantastic resources. Shamefully, I can't share their COINTELPRO guide because I'm a dummy and didn't save it (and google search will never show it). But the point is that that kind of image featuring compiled data was how the /pol/ group passed such essential data to new users.
If TD has no such guide, well...I hope they can make one because they get (and should expect to get) so many newcomers. They know they're a target, but the attitude I always see there is that reports and mods will solve everything, thus making it unessential to understand the vectors of attack that are most likely to occur.