No you don’t. Trump won in 2016 (and 2020 before it was stolen) without MSM support. I liked the Contract for America and Tea Party. The reason they lost wasn’t the media, the problem is that party leadership got weak in the knees and believed all the media “they don’t like us” crap. That wasn’t a media problem, it was a leadership problem. Trump shows what you can do when you stay the course.
In #214, “lost” probably isn’t the right way to put it. “Became rudderless and faded away” is a better way to say that.