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From my view point, Fox has gone from being as you stated, Pro conservative to pro Trump. Prior to Trump's election conservatism and the RNC were basically one. Now Trump waged a war against the RNC and what was once more traditional conservatism or conservatism represented by the Republican Party. This I say as all during the Primaries Trump supporters referred to him as a populist, a nationalist and even a nativist. Almost every name but a conservative.
I never considered Trump a conservative, although it appears most people do today. I never considered him a Republican either. An opportunist, yes, but not an Republican. I think, at least for the time being that Trump has taken over the Republican Party. Taken from those lifelong Republicans who put their hearts and souls into the party. I don't think Trumpism will last. He's is even being fought by some Republicans in congress. Now this could be because once Trump won the nomination, he never tried to unify the party behind him. I suppose he viewed those Republican never -Trumpers just as much as an enemy as any Democrat to include Hillary Clinton.
This is a bit off the subject, but it is interesting that when it comes to Trump's job approval or even his favorability among Republicans, the polls show approximately 45% of all republicans strongly approve of the job he is doing or view him favorable with another 35% of Republicans somewhat approve of his job performance or view him somewhat favorably. That is an 80% favorable rating among Republicans, but there are that 35% who somewhat approve or view him favorably that could switch fairly easily from that column into the somewhat disapprove or view him somewhat unfavorably. I don't think Trump is that strong even within the GOP.
I could be wrong, I certainly been wrong before. Time will tell.
I often have Fox news or talk radio running in the background when I'm are working around the house or on a project of some kind though I do spend some time on the leftwing news sources too. And I have not seen Fox News be at all pro Trump. I have heard as much questioning or negative commenting on the President as I have heard positive, affirmation, correction of erroneous reporting from other news sources. The only difference between Fox and the other news sources is that Fox reports the positive and corrects the fallacious reporting and points it out which the others don't do. And there is a lot of positive stuff to report too, but you would never know it if you don't watch Fox or listen to talk radio.