From a more theoretical perspective I think TikTok and the broader advances in recommendation systems that allow networks to de-deemphasize follower graphs is breaking the cartel that writers have had on discourse for centuries.

I’m not super optimistic about how that will shake out.

Obama wasn’t perfect (nobody is perfect) but he was mostly right about the biggest issues and post-2012 shifts in Democratic Party ideology have mostly been change for the worse.

www.slowboring.com/p/obama-most...

Or better yet, just create a new party and leave behind the Open Borders people, the Defund the Police people, the Hamas guys, and all the leftist extremists. The mainstream media likes to slap all these ideas on the Dem party - just let these guys keep the Dem name and move onto to something else.