Chris Rufo

If the media narrative is get rid of critical race theory, abolish DEI, stop trans insanity in schools, that leads politicians towards a greater understanding of reality and towards some sort of

Sometimes those things overlap in a healthy way.

Sometimes they point against each other.

And we're entering a media moment where, and you can see it, I mean, it's just getting bigger and bigger and bigger, where the incentive systems are not overlapping and integrating in a way that advances the public good.

positive policy outcome.

If the media narrative is, did Israel kill Charlie Kirk?

And I'll give you a specific example of what I mean.

Not only is the breakdown epistemological, meaning we can't actually see the truth.

My specialty, what I do is I take investigative reporting, I turn it into kind of media campaigns that try to drive public policy.

We're not tightly kind of clung on to reality, but there's no positive outcome that can emerge from that.

And I'll tell you, the last...

three to six months have been very difficult relative to say the first three to six months of the administration, precisely because the conspiracy podcasting, the antisemitism podcasting, the kind of general just psychotic or schizo breakdown of the rights media apparatus in many quarters, not of course in these quarters,

There's nothing we can do.

If the premise is false, the conclusion is impossible.

And so every media cycle that is dominated by the

interpersonal tabloid drama, or just the kind of brain addled conspiracy is directly harming the Trump administration's ability to succeed and therefore directly harming its political fate.

has degraded the ability for the right to be effective.

And what happens is that political leaders often respond to and follow media narratives.

If the media narrative is get rid of critical race theory, abolish DEI, stop trans insanity in schools, that leads politicians towards a greater understanding of reality and towards some sort of

positive policy outcome.