For decades, Democrats have maintained a monopoly over the mainstream media in terms of receiving favorable coverage and dutiful repetition of their messaging, but that control of public information has been challenged in recent years by the rise of alternative media outlets and social media platforms that provide neutral or right-leaning coverage of the news and politics.

That development is viewed as unfair to Democrats by former President Bill Clinton, who laughably lamented in a recent interview that voters now get their information from "zillions of new websites" that range from "conservative to right-wing radical," the Daily Caller reported.

In fact, in Clinton's view, the right-leaning new media has become so prevalent that Democrats are "not even being heard" by the voters they are trying to reach, which he marked as a factor in the party's devastating losses of the White House, Senate, and House in this month's elections.

Clinton says new right-leaning media has drowned out Democratic voices

Former President Clinton recently sat for an interview for MSNBC with Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart and discussed at one point the apparent difficulty that Democrats faced in the elections in trying to reach voters with their messaging, according to Mediaite.

"Politics is the only business in which you can prove your authenticity by not knowing anything. And I think that’s a problem, and we’ll pay for it unless we get over it," Clinton said. "But that’s a problem for the Democrats too. We have to learn to talk to people in ways that they can relate to."

"That’s why, you know, when I helped -- I did my best to help this time," he continued of his support for Vice President Kamala Harris' failed campaign. "I don’t want to go to any big rallies and big television things, I just want to get in the country. Let’s go out and talk to people."

"Because I think that we’re behind in the sense that a lot of the small town and rural people are now highly sophisticated in how they get their information and there are zillions of new websites now, all trying to advance their sort of conservative to right-wing radical cause," Clinton asserted.

"And a lot of times, we’re not playing on the same field and we’re not even being heard," the former president added. "So I just said, send me out there, and I’ll see if I can’t do some good. I have no idea if I did, but I tried."

Clinton hopes for a political "deathbed conversion" for Trump

According to the Daily Mail, former President Clinton has been making the media rounds to not only analyze the recent elections but also to promote his new book, "Citizen: My Life After the White House," and he has had a few interesting things to say in some of those interviews.

During an appearance on the "Late Show" with host Stephen Colbert, Clinton expressed his belief that, despite his prior fervent criticisms of President-elect Donald Trump, there remained the possibility that the GOP president could experience the political equivalent of a "deathbed conversion" or come-to-Jesus moment ala the Apostle Paul, who initially persecuted Christians before becoming one of the faith's greatest advocates.

"I was raised in the Baptist church, and I believe in deathbed conversions, so I still think, you know, President Trump could be like Paul on the road to Tarsus. And think how wonderful that would be," Clinton said, then confirmed that he'd adopted an optimistic outlook for Trump's second term as he added, "You gotta plan for the worst and work for the best."

Clinton thinks the first woman president will be a Republican

The Daily Mail also reported that former President Clinton touched on the losses of two female Democratic nominees -- his wife, failed 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton, and now VP Harris -- and suggested in a CBS News interview that the first woman president would likely be a conservative in the mold of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

"Well, I think all these cultural battles that we're fighting make it harder in some ways for a woman to run," Clinton said of why both Democratic women had lost their races against Trump. "I think in some ways we've moved to the right as a reaction to all the turmoil. And I think if Hillary had been nominated in 2008, she would've walked in, just like [Barack] Obama did."

"I think it would probably be easier for a conservative Republican woman to win. Because, I mean, that's what Maggie Thatcher did," he added and then predicted, "I think we'll have a female president pretty soon."