Are the Democrats Getting Better at the Internet?

Jon Allsop: “Maybe a certain reserved professionalism is part of what makes Democrats different from Trump, and is thus worth preserving; maybe, given the asymmetric power of the right-wing-media ecosystem, Democrats don’t have Trump’s latitude to say whatever crazy things they like without it being held against them, and so need to keep their guard up a bit; maybe the manosphere is just too right-wing-coded for liberals to thrive there.”

“Then again, Rogan endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2020—and, as I’ve explored in this column in recent weeks, he, Von, and others of their ilk now sound increasingly disillusioned with Trump, following his strikes on Iran and (supposed) concealment of the Epstein files. This would seem to offer Democrats an opening in the podcastverse.”

“And, when it comes to all the other online spaces, there’s never been any inherent reason that the Party’s positioning requires so much of its content to suck so much.”