JD Vance is right, for once
Booting Trump from social media is backfiring.
I’ve been extremely critical of this phony, but I 100% agree with this Tweet:
Social media has destroyed our attention span, just as it’s destroyed our ability to, uh, oh well. Trump’s insane social media posts, which dominated the news from 2015 until January 2021, might as well have happened when Studebaker was still building cars. It’s ancient history.
Nostalgia is a funny thing. I had a horrendous time in high school, and yet there are still many things about these years that I fondly look back on. (Not junior high school, mind you.) The nineties are now considered a golden age, but I remember that decade well, and I can assure you grunge music and gangsta rap didn’t become popular because we Generation Xers were happy with our lot in life.
After a while, the bad stuff gets pushed aside and we remember only the good. And, God help me, that might be happening with Trump. Heck, there’s a tiny part of me that misses the entertainment his Presidency occasionally provided.
That’s why, paradoxically, I think banning him from all the major social media platforms was a mistake in retrospect. His recent statement calling for Mike Pence to be investigated by Congress for not overturning the 2020 election results, which I guess he had to email to someone to post for him, got barely a fraction of the attention a verified Trump tweet would have received.
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