Friends, everyone knows that there's still such a thing as the "mainstream media", a.k.a. the "legacy media", and it leans left (to put it mildly), but what is the alternative media, or the "new media", and who has the edge there? This is not my area of expertise, but I'm sure the alternative media could be divided into many sub-categories. One in which right-wingers appear to have an advantage is with social media "influencers". Presumably, this means podcasters and bloggers and people who make short videos for YouTube, TikTok, and the like. The Dems invested a lot of money in dominating this space in '24, and clearly they fell flat on their faces. We can't count on them staying at a disadvantage forever, however. As we speak, they're blanketing the internet with smears against ICE and edited videos of encounters with federal law enforcement that make, or try to make, Trump and Co. look worse than Pol Pot. Expect this war for the "hearts and minds" of social media users to intensify in the months and years ahead, and special thanks to Elon Musk, whose purchase of X kept conservatives competitive in social media at a moment when it looked like we might be frozen out altogether...
Dr. Waddy from Jack: That is an encouraging article. It looks like more and more our side has seized the initiative and is, with intelligence, technical skill and confidence, driving the anarchic far left down.
ReplyDeleteChurchill initially perceived the astonishing WWI proven , horrid truth that the promise of the early 1900s had been thoroughly short circuited. He described the Nazi threat as the progenitor of a "new Dark Age" (and as I remember it), " made worse by the lights of a perverted science". Shortly after victory over the Nazis, he was engulfed by depression at the thought (made plausible by this uniquely qualified historian) that the Hitlerian mantle had simply been taken up by massively armed and extended Stalinist barbarity and that the existential threat to civilization was still fully threatening.
The existential and civilizational clash is being fought out now. With unprecedented good fortune (eg. the astonishing rise of U.S. leader who fully comprehends the stakes ) we have received a real chance to drive the continuing totalitarian nightmare into final failure. Churchill was right; everything we cherish depends on this.