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Graham Platner Was the Perfect Twitter Candidate

First publishedJul 14, 16:19 UTC
Last updatedJul 14, 19:42 UTC · 10m ago
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It should now be well established that Elon Musk has turned Twitter into a right-wing fever dream in which Democrats rarely win elections legitimately, Donald Trump is popular, and good, red-blooded Americans have bailed on the Democratic Party. But in the now-aborted Senate campaign of Graham Platner, we got a window into how the platform also serves as a reality distortion field for Democrats.

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It should now be well established that Elon Musk has turned Twitter into a right-wing fever dream in which Democrats rarely win elections legitimately, Donald Trump is popular, and good, red-blooded Americans have bailed on the Democratic Party. But in the now-aborted Senate campaign of Graham Platner, we got a window into how the platform also serves as a reality distortion field for Democrats. Musk’s capture of Twitter and subsequent transformation of the platform were, on net, a gift to Republicans. The platform was (and likely still is) much smaller than Instagram or TikTok, but its station as the dominant social media app for journalists and political elites gave it agenda-setting power.

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It should now be well established that Elon Musk has turned Twitter into a right-wing fever dream in which Democrats rarely win elections legitimately, Donald Trump is popular, and good, red-blooded Americans have bailed on the Democratic Party. But in the now-aborted Senate campaign of Graham Platner, we got a window into how the platform also serves as a reality distortion field for Democrats.
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