Why Does the Fake News Continue to Promote Trump?

I’d like to think that I’m far and away the best the best writer on current politics that there ever was. But there’s a guy out there named Shankar Narayan, who posted a column on Medium last week which has me all beat to Hell.

What Narayan did was to take the trouble to drill down into the last three election returns in specific states, and what he found might constitute the beginning of the end for the GOP. Or at least the GOP if it continues its craven support of Donald Trump.

Narayan begins his analysis by reminding us of what we all know to be true, namely, that most elections are won or lost by a shift from red to blue or blue to red by voters who refer to themselves as ‘independents,’ a group which constitutes less than 10% of the voting population as a whole.

In 2016, independent voters went for Trump over Clinton by a margin of 1 percent. In 2018, when Trump held more than 60 rallies and claimed the mid-term election was a ‘plebiscite’ on him, independent voters went for the blue team by the astounding number of 15 percent! In 2020, Trump did pull out more voters than any previous incumbent was able to draw, but the independent vote went for Biden by 9 percent.

Let’s remember one important point about 2016. This was the last election where independent voters showed a…