Boost of @kingofallnads Kooks will always be with us, of every ideological persu

Boost of @kingofallnads Kooks will always be with us, of every ideological persuasion. The real lesson of stories like this one is to make sure your people retain control of the media.

Control of the media allows you to:

– ignore your side’s kooks
– report on the enemy’s kooks
– legitimize your side’s politics and public activism
– delegitimize your enemy’s politics and public activism
– pull public support toward your side
– push public support away from your enemy
– embolden your side’s confidence in their narrative
– intimidate your enemy to toe your preferred narrative
– frame your side as morally righteous
– frame the enemy as immoral, stupid, backward

And on and on. The benefits of megaphone control are obvious.