Brett Meiselas: This is something that has been decades in the making… I don’t even think… — @meidastouch

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@meidastouch's TikTok video "Brett Meiselas: This is something that has been decades in the making… I don’t even think people totally understand how deep it goes. It’s one of the things we speak about in our new book, WTF America.. is how the seeds were planted for this right-wing infrastructure going back to the ’70s. I’m talking about Roger Ailes in the Nixon administration, having a document that said, “A Plan to Put the GOP on TV News,” and it took him a few decades to actually implement that, along with Rupert Murdoch. But they’ve since built this behemoth, this incredible right-wing machine. I don’t mean that in a good way, but this right-wing machine that allows there to never be another Richard Nixon situation anymore, where somebody is actually held responsible. In many ways, that was the original sin for so many of these people, that they wanted to fight back on. They wanted to build a propaganda machine. And now we’re seeing that with Fox and these right-wing influencers, and they are just polluting the airwaves. They are taking over companies. And it was also laid out for us in black and white in Project 2025." has 19,595 views, 1,771 likes, 17 comments, 18 shares in the public metrics captured by this index. That is an engagement rate of 9.22% (likes, comments and shares over views). It was posted 6 days ago and runs 2 minutes 52 seconds. It has been saved 85 times.

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The capture indexed here reports 19,595 views, 1,771 likes and 17 comments.

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Across the captured metrics the engagement rate is 9.22% (likes + comments + shares over views).

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It was posted on 2026-10-20, 6 days ago.

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The captured clip runs 2 minutes 52 seconds.