I think its more than what you claimed... They are just objectively incorrect facts. Many people have felt electricity, we know where it comes from, what causes it, and how to control it, even.
Republicans have been eliminating progressive news and media for years.
They really haven't... The issue is far deeper than that.
Fear based pushing of media doesn't work so well outside of a cult. The problem atheists have isn't that we don't have our own sunday services, where we teach a different "fire and brimestone" message... Its that those sorts of "tools" just don't work with people broken away from indoctrination.
Way back when, I ran two "new sites": One was a progressive media site, and the other a conservative one (Before I had a stronger moral compass), and running ads on both.
The progressive one earned almost nothing. The conservative one? I was easily bringing in ~$40/month in ad rev, without doing anything, really. I wrote two stories, about the same thing, and just tweaked the language for each to cater to the side I was publishing to.
Oddly, or not, the most commonly clicked ad was penis enlargement pills, and "Hot moms looking to cheat" type ads.
She lost, because (IMO) she basically gave a big middle finger to:
Leftists
Progressives
Arab-Americans
And, because she decided these people were great people:
Dick Cheney
Bill Kristol
Georgie Bush
Mike Pence
You know? The war criminals and war criminal enablers.
The lesson Dems need to learn is that no matter how much they shift right, they're not winning GOP voters. All they are doing is shedding voters on the left. The whole "Vote for us because other team is bad" rings hollow when you're doing everything the other team is doing, too.
I dunno if we can call Evangelicals a small sect at this time. Especially not in the US. Catholicism is a "small sect" in the US, for the most part.