Recovering journalist and Nashville-area public policy expert Clint Brewer said last week’s general election proved that Americans no longer trust and are choosing not to believe information put out by “legacy media” outlets.
Brewer said bluntly “no one cares” about the legacy media’s ongoing attempts to discredit president-elect Donald Trump despite his decisive victory in the general election which saw him win both the electoral and popular vote.
“Whether your version of events are true or the other side’s version of events are true, what I can tell you is that the delivery mechanism, the messenger for that, is now one of the least trusted entities in America, and that’s the legacy press,” Brewer explained on Tuesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Brewer said the issue is not Americans having obstructed access to information, but that the information being pushed by legacy media is simply not being accepted by Americans.
“It’s not that they’re not getting the information, it’s that they don’t believe the people telling them,” Brewer explained.
“You can put all this information together all you want and you can say it the way you want, but if the people saying it for you aren’t believed, it doesn’t matter. Right now, where Americans are hearing that narrative is almost exclusively from the press. There’s a trust deficit there, a deep one,” Brewer added.
With regard to Trump’s victory in the presidential race, Brewer said the president-elect’s authenticity persuaded voters.
“In the final days…you saw Vice President Harris spending millions of her donors’ dollars staging rallies with celebrities. At the same time, you saw Donald Trump serving fries in a McDonald’s drive thru window and driving a garbage truck,” Brewer explained.
“Trump did some pretty earthy things. He went unfiltered. He just said whatever he was thinking,” Brewer added. “I think we’re so inundated by things that aren’t real and authentic because of our phones and social media, that what people want regardless of party is somebody who’s just being themselves.”
Watch the full interview:
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
