This would be more like...if Trump ran Breitbart for a decade, and Breitbart had a following consisting of most of the US population and could easily be used to

This would be more like...if Trump ran Breitbart for a decade, and Breitbart had a following consisting of most of the US population and could easily be used to sway huge portions of the electorate because you spent the last decade figuring out how to manipulate your viewers. Probably a better example is if the GOP owned a private intelligence firm that had data on every citizen and could manipulate what they saw/read/said