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 Wilmington coup or the Brooks Brothers riot...
Read More »The following is an excerpt from the new 2021 edition of How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections”, available for download on Epolitics.com and in the Amazon store as a Kindle ebook. You can read Part One of this article here. 5. Grassroots Tech Donald Trump...
Read More »The Extraordinary Power of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Instagram Live, via Eric Wilson. House removes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from committees over incendiary social media posts. But, Marjorie Taylor Greene “claimed she had raised upward of $330,000 from 13,000 small donors over 48...
Read More »Now that Twitter has banned its loudest voice, has the platform lost its status as a political tool? Not really, at least in the short run, I argue in my latest column for Campaigns & Elections. For one thing, DJT wasn’t the only one relying on it: Some critics deride “hashtag...
Read More »The White House changed hands on January 20th, and so did all of social-media properties associated with it. As Laurence Dobbs covered in the UK’s Daily Telegraph around the time of the inauguration, this process was unusually fraught when one of the parties involved was named Donald Trump...
Read More »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 question of whether political Facebook ads will come...
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