Hmm, maybe. The reality of twitter though is that there really aren't that many actual humans on it. When I saw the numbers I was surprised at how low they were.No Spin Ag said:Bonfire1996 said:OldAg68 said:Deputy Travis Junior said:
If you want to blame the person most responsible for our current vegetable president, blame Trump. It was a known fact that voter turnout would shatter previous records and that he'd need more of the middle to get a W, yet he continued to behave in a way that he knew would alienate them. His kindergarten-level impulse control is 100% on him.
And to whoever is going to post "he got more votes than any republican in history!" know that this is irrelevant given the massive uptick in voter turnout. 2020 was a unique ballgame and he utterly failed to adapt his strategy, so now we're stuck with a complete idiot in office.
This.
It's incredibly simple. He could have won in a landslide, but he just can't overcome his ego and he alienated too many people.
Serious question: Did Trumps tweets alienate more people than record inflation, increasing taxes, decade low small business confidence, decade low consumer confidence, and tyrannical mandates?
Or are swing voters just idiots?
You know the answer.
I still say, with all honesty, that had Twitter not existed, Trump would have won his reelection easily. Not one of his policies was that much different than any other republican would have had, and like Abbott in Texas, enough democrats easily live with those types of conservative policies, because they don't really change their (liberals) lives.
There's a reason DeSantis, and likely no other serious GOP candidate, uses Twitter the way Trump did, because they know that it's much easier to win when you keep those non die-hard candidates (i.e. concerned moderates) content, and all it takes is acting like a politician.
I think the truer reality is that if we had a media that covered both sides of the issue he would have won despite anything that ever happened on twitter.