Democrats in power confront the social media trap
It's everywhere on social media: Democrats celebrating the attractive men voters elected in the midterms.
Key points
- But social media sucked in countless others to try to copy him, pushing rhetoric or ideas few politicians would've touched in the past.
- "The best proof point of Democrats' 'getting this' was our success across the entire country." What we're watching: The biggest siren song of the algorithm this next year will be impeaching Trump.
- The trap is springing before Democrats have even been sworn in: Several incoming senators have publicly said they won't support Schumer as leader, calling for new blood and more fight.
A few provocative members of Congress and online activists dominate the national conversation because they master the biggest social media platforms.
You see this in the daily media feeding frenzy when someone, somewhere goes viral because they lit up social media with a meme or menacing post.
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- But social media is a temptress no party leader has tamed.
- Trump started his own social media platform, Truth Social.
- It's easy to scream and yell, and say no — it's much harder to figure out a way forward." By the numbers: Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed had 1.6 million Instagram followers as of Sept.
- Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), vice chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, told us: "Governing isn't about getting the most followers on X — it's about delivering actual results...
- Why it matters: That's the lesson of the Internet Era of American Politics — the algorithms always win.
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