As America enters the last 100 days of the 2024 election cycle, it does not escape voters that our elections now seem to require the management of a professional liar class.

In the seconds it took for Joe Biden to be escorted down the debate stage by the First Lady, the regime’s propagandists—in other words, “the media”—masterfully orchestrated the panic that laid the groundwork for a de facto coup. Now, with the president effectively consigned to the basement, the spotlight has been swiftly redirected toward Kamala Harris.

Far from being the independent, self-interested actors that classical liberalism has accustomed people on the right to believe it is, the extra-constitutional behemoth we call the “free press” functions as the propaganda arm for the Democrat Party. With the Harris-Walz ticket freshly ordained, the media has moved on from covering for Joe to enthusiastically singing the praises of the “burn & bail” ticket.

Over the past week, Harris and Walz have been rallying their most dependable client base: the groups typically on the receiving end of dividends from the Democrats. This includes militant BLM rioters, pro-abortion fanatics, hypersexual “transgenders,” pro-Hamas agitators, literal communists, and even “minor-attracted persons.” Perhaps the most loyal of these groups are the millions of illegal immigrants Biden and Harris have successfully imported into the country with a goal of forming a new voting bloc to ensure a future of one-party dominance.

Fortunately, Harris and Walz are confident enough to have been candid about their platform, and with each platitudinous line they deliver, the more their appeal may diminish among normal Americans in the crucial swing states. But they may be right to think they can get away with saying one thing to their base and another to the new voters they need. The strategy of running against one’s own record is reserved to those who know that the press, rather than vetting and scrutinizing them, are laboring overtime to manufacture a fresh narrative—one that can possibly breathe new life into the Harris/Walz campaign and sustain it through November.

Just as the press incessantly shilled for Biden’s basement campaign in 2020, it now churns out the same sort of dreck for the next apparatchik. Like Biden, Harris is no more than a signpost for the entrenched administrative state. This explains why Biden could govern in absentia and not only retain his post but continue to receive the laurels normally reserved for those on Mount Rushmore—at least until it was untenable. Harris must know that just as Biden was quietly deposed and erased from memory, she could just as easily become irrelevant—if the party and the press wills it.

For any ideology to be endorsed, the masses must have faith in an integrating myth. Whether that myth is true in the factual sense is beside the point. Consider the varied formulations of the original Thanksgiving or Paul Revere’s midnight ride. That these myths are slightly embellished and varied in their telling does not make them any less believable in some ways. The mythic power they contain endures precisely because it resonates with something deeply true in the collective spirit, and therefore it cannot be undermined in a system governed by mass public opinion. Every society unconsciously operates on this level—there is always a myth that binds its people together by answering the question who we are and what we work towards.

The media mafia is presently scrambling to sell a new myth. They believe in the mythic power surrounding the potential of elevating the first Indo-Jamaican female president. At best, they’ve managed to stitch together an image of a “girlboss-coconut-brat-mommy.” Meanwhile, Walz is now being re-imagined as a jolly Santa Claus—a benevolent old white man eager to dispense presents to loyal Democrats as he emphasizes his supposed “normal dad energy” to which fatherless liberals can cling for a semblance of leadership in a society plagued by deep-seated “daddy issues.”

President Nixon had the right idea. The press is the enemy.

Were Harris to publicly address the same media personalities who installed her, she might easily tarnish her desired image. If allowed to speak off-the-cuff during extended questioning, she risks providing soundbites ripe for weaponization. The press knows this; thus, they have taken on the responsibility of operating as her “rapid-response team,” ensuring that Harris remains the only presidential candidate in history to avoid appearing in an unscripted setting within 80 days of the election. If the campaign can manufacture enough steam to carry Harris through the race, it is possible that even the inevitable moments of self-sabotage Harris will render unto herself will be of no consequence.

Recent events bring to mind a passage in Oswald Spengler’s portentous classic, The Decline of the West. More than a century ago Spengler hit upon something that continues to resonateway down to the present:

Democracy has become a weapon of moneyed interests. It uses the media to create the illusion that there is consent from the governed. The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. The notion of democracy is often no different than living under a plutocracy or a government by wealthy elites.

The prerequisite for any democracy is freedom of speech, and more precisely, a free press. But contrary to the ideals cherished by classical liberals, our national discourse is not grounded in the good-faith search for shared truth in a neutral “marketplace of ideas.” It never really has been that. In practice, it more closely resembles a struggle for power. In present-day America, the freedom of speech has rapidly devolved into a tyranny of the press, which serves anything but the truth.

Our liberal elites are operating on the rules outlined in chapter 13 of Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy, where he advises that one ascends from humble beginnings to great fortune more often through fraud than force. In The Prince, Machiavelli elaborates on the distinction between implicit and explicit power that he so picturesquely described in terms of lions and foxes. In simple terms, the lion relies on force to achieve its ends, while the fox employs cunning.

Lions gain and maintain power through sheer force, operating on the principle of “might makes right.” To be cunning, one must embrace a level of dishonesty or a readiness to compromise on principles, which the lion is unwilling to do. Lions are deeply attached to family, church, nation, and tradition. While foxes lack such attachments, they do not hesitate to exploit these loyalties in others.

The fox uses cunning not out of choice but out of necessity. Intimidated by strength and competition because they cannot contend with it, foxes spin narratives that capitalize on fear, scandal, anger, and hope—innate, sub-rational passions.

For Harris to openly campaign on post-birth abortions and the wholesale demographic replacement of the American people is not a sign of weakness but a display of power. Having cemented its cultural dominance in true Machiavellian fashion, the left forgoes the need to woo moderates and instead plunges headlong into radicalism.

Ever since the Watergate scandal enshrined the role of “the journalist” as the patron-saint of our political order, the art of making and breaking politicians has become something of a sacrament. While perhaps not well-versed in Edmund Burke and Martin Heidegger, we all possess a healthy instinct to discern friend from enemy. This election hinges on whether or not the American people know when they are being lied to—that is, do they know the enemy?

Social media offers right-wing populists an opportunity to contest the established power of the press. After all, it was Trump’s Twitter account that won him 2016. Governor Walz’s “stolen-valor” PR fiasco is but another testament to the private social media user’s ability to challenge the press head-on. Trump’s conversation on X this week with Elon Musk “breaking the internet” proves much the same.

In a way, corporate media is poised to become the decisive actor in the upcoming election, but social media still has the potential to unseat the Harris-Walz propaganda machine and to expose its corrupt core.  This explains the ongoing struggle for censorship on social media. This November we shall see the extent of legacy media power.