Today, the media, and all of our enemies, are cheering. Let today be remembered as a dark day for America and its people.

My friends,

I have noticed that the media is only good for one thing. We can use their emotions to determine how positive or negative a certain situation is before we even know anything about it. There is a near infinite number of examples of this. The media’s borderline schizophrenic Russia obsession served as a warning to all sane people that something would not be quite right with the story. The media’s obsession with manufactured polling numbers – which have been proven to be wrong time and time again – has only created a heightened sense of skepticism towards their so-called approval rating polls.

When the media is cheering on the president, you can almost be certain that he is doing something wrong. The media will cheer when the Kushner wing pushes the White House towards interventionist foreign policy. The media will react with outrage when Donald Trump advances a populist agenda. Withdrawing from the Trans Pacific Partnership was met with condemnation, but needlessly threatening Iran was met with praise.

As I have said before, the media abuses its position of authority. It creates a sense that they are the voice of the people, when in reality they are the voice of the elite. This old idea that the media represents the will of the American people gives them the power to influence our politicians, to the point where the media almost acts as a shadow government. Think of it this way, the point of American democracy, and all democracy, is that the power lies with the people, at least in theory. The idea is that the government is granted its right to rule by the people, making the people the ones with the power. In practice, this is not true, but in theory this is how it is meant to be. So if the people are meant to be the ones with the power, what happens when the elite few decide to create media corporations that are, in theory, meant to be the voice of the people? Historically, the press was localized, and was a true representation of how regular Americans felt. Now, with multinational media powerhouses, the media answers only to the wealthy few who keep the money flowing, not regular people.

This system has allowed the media to monopolize public opinion. Our politicians are overwhelmingly very old, and come from a time where they felt they could trust the media. Many grew up in a time where they, or their parents, would real the local newspaper every day. They grew up in a time where you knew the people who ran your local outlet. They were your neighbors, your friends, you could trust them. These politicians are stuck in the past, and can not bring themselves to feel any distrust towards the media. Congressional Republicans may act as if they are anti-establishment, they may sometimes question the media, but if they knew the truth, they would have pushed for legislation to regulate them and curb the powers that they abuse to infringe upon citizens’ rights to be heard.

Like a hostile foreign power, the media has been engaging in a coup against our leader. Through the unproven “Russian hacking” narrative, and now through the “Nazi” narrative, the media has been engaging in an all out war against our democratically elected president. The removal of Steve Bannon today is just the latest victory for the media, as they attempt to undo the election results and steal from us the only political victory we have had in years. Steve Bannon is a great man and a true populist. He was one of our only voices in the White House, and now he has been removed thanks to a relentless media narrative, which has been going on for almost a year now.

This is nowhere near the first time the media has done this. Mike Flynn, populist, targeted and assassinated by the media. We can not allow this rogue, hostile media, which is run by multinational, anti-American interests, to continue on like this. If the president does not push for media reform, this will continue. We can not allow the media to undo everything we have done. The year and a half long journey to elect Donald Trump, all the effort we put in to deny the neoconservatives and the liberals, we can not allow this to be erased.

Media reform is perhaps the most pressing issue today. The media, with their power, prevents this administration from making any progress on any other issues that matter. Until we reform, regulate, and break up these hostile, dictatorial media corporations, we will never see progress made on the issues that matter to us. How will a border wall ever be built while the media is allowed to carry on like this? The construction of the wall will take years. The media was able to eliminate our top ally in the White House in only months. Do you believe that the media will allow the construction to finish?

We must make our voices heard in spite in the media’s attempts to shut us down. We must voice our disapproval to Donald Trump. He must know that we do not approve of this decision, and that he will not earn our reelection votes unless he takes serious action to fight the media and give us our voice back. Bannon must either come back or be replaced with someone even better, even more populist. We will not tolerate another Kushner. Let Republican Congress know that we will not tolerate them acting as Democrats-lite. Primary them and vote them out in 2018. Elect congressmen who will push back against media narratives, and not give in to them.

Last year, we made our voices heard. When we elected Donald Trump, we handed the media, the Democrats, the neoconservatives, and the elite establishment their first loss in years. We can not allow things to return to business as usual. The only people who will fight for us are ourselves.

Yours,

Mikhail