No internet, no Capitol riot: It’s that simple. Mainstream American political organizations assemble crowds, but rarely mobs. Advocacy groups don’t generally turn people against the institutions of government physically, and events like...
The following is an excerpt from the new 2021 edition of How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections”. Note that some of these trends are in flux even a couple of weeks after I wrote these words, particularly the...
The following is an excerpt from the introduction to the 2021 edition of “How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections”. If I could describe politics at the beginning of 2021 in one word, it would be...
So now we know what it takes for Facebook and Twitter to cut off Trump: an angry mob storming the United States Capitol. Before today, these companies had overlooked a lot. Consistent racism? Sad, but he’s a public figure. Lies and...
We don’t know how the Georgia Senate runoffs will go next week, but we already know a lot about American politics in the next two years. The Democrats are easy: Joe Biden will do his earnest best but fail the test of ruthlessness, while the...
Most of you will have read by now that former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale (the first digital director to run a major presidential campaign) was tackled by police and forcibly committed over the weekend after he threatened to kill himself...
Let’s continue our examination of the Big Trends shaping the world of digital politics and advocacy with the second excerpt from Chapter Four of “How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections [2020 Edition]”...
Sometimes digital politics practitioners are so close to the brushstrokes that we can miss the sweep of the full painting. What are the trends shaping our field? Let’s look at four of the big ones below, with five more in the next installment...
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.” – Erich Fromm Danger? Or opportunity…. With that in mind, I offer you my look at the next ten years of digital...
Howdy folks, I’m in the middle of a two-part series looking at the past and future of digital politics and advocacy, running on Campaigns & Elections. The first section, published earlier this week, examines the past ten years — an...