I think sometimes, as Democrats, we get stuck in our own liberal bubble

[Arthur_Frain]

12. That's part of it, certainly.

Social media has been brutal to us though. We didn’t understand how to use it, while their side (or the baser elements of their side) understood its potential almost intrinsically. Tfg bleating “fake news” and “alternative facts” from the get go, the explosion of far right so called news sites that peddle nothing but stressors, the ready assistance of certain foreign entities.

I’m not sure I share your optimism about the nature of swing voters. I don’t wear my politics on my sleeve much, and I’m at an age where I get fairly well ignored in a room, so I get to listen a lot. Let me tell you, the tenor of the conversations this week? In the locker room at the gym? In the cafe/coffee house? If you thought they were emboldened by their success in 2016, I can tell you that you ain’t seen nothing yet. And it’s not just his base, there’s an anti Democratic Party swell in the general populace from what I can see. There’s a whole lot of young men who think Joker is their hero, and they want to watch the world burn.

And you couldn’t much tell that from anything you read here in the previous month or so. Guilty of Monday morning quarterbacking? Sure. But it isn’t like I haven’t been here saying, “wait just are minute, don’t any of you see this”? Sure, tfg wasn’t responsible for the success of his economy, he rode Barry’s coattails, but RW social media amplified his claim that his was the greatest economy ever was all that you could hear. They don't take the pandemic into account because RW social media told them all it was fake.

And here’s the neat part, somewhere along the line, with the final gasp of local, printed newspapers, the completion of ascension of the 24 hour news channel to dominate the airwaves, social media became where most folks get their news, so it’s all curated.

We all live in bubbles of our own construction.