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But if his detractors stopped paying attention, he would just become... more successful? Media outlets would stop writing about him for anything but fluff pieces because we wouldn't read them. This is just basic politics.

If the criticism is bad and inaccurate then it can bolster a politician, like it did with Bernie with all the hit pieces. Remembering how the ancient jewish man was called sexist and anti-semitic every Tuesday. Really made him feel like the threatening outsider he ran on being.