Eehng… the fraud was mostly done against other rich conservatives & the NRA members themselves, so there wasn’t much of a way to convince people it was all the fault of liberals. Plus you can’t let everyone get away with it, so just throw the most inept ones under the bus occasionally and chalk it up as an example of conservative self-regulation.
And when it comes to funded propaganda like the NRA the wealthy and powerful don’t need to discredit the organization or go out of their way to do anything other than change their donations to some other propaganda source and let the old one wither away.
Eehng… the fraud was mostly done against other rich conservatives & the NRA members themselves, so there wasn’t much of a way to convince people it was all the fault of liberals. Plus you can’t let everyone get away with it, so just throw the most inept ones under the bus occasionally and chalk it up as an example of conservative self-regulation.
And when it comes to funded propaganda like the NRA the wealthy and powerful don’t need to discredit the organization or go out of their way to do anything other than change their donations to some other propaganda source and let the old one wither away.