Author: Curt Doolittle

–“An open member of the Dissident Right (Keith Woods) is more influential on X/Twitter than both Candace Owens and Matt Walsh.”–

Sorry to disappoint:
1) demographic distribution on social media is larger at the bottom.
2) reach to the social media bottom does not convert into influence in votes, elites, or policy
3) negative correlation between social media users and political action, political participation, and resulting votes.
4) Bottom feeders and fishers only serve to reinforce the majority perception on both right and left that the losers are to be further suppressed and punished if necessary.
5) And as a result the conservatives are dragged down by the bottom feeders and bottom fishers. Between fundamentalists, libertarians, and nazis the boat anchor is more than the moral middle can compensate for in social media, mainstream media, or the vote.

In other words, social media consists of the top of the talking class and the bottom economic and social classes, absent the middle and the top – who have better things to do, because they are neither trying to enfranchise or find franchise.

The way we used to say this in old media is “More people read USA Today, but the only people that matter read the Wall Street Journal.”

Woods and Fuentes and their peers are bottom fishing for bottom feeders. But it doesn’t convert to political consequence in their favor. It does the opposite.

(Cue the tirade from the loser brigade.) 😉

Cheers

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