How posting became the GOP’s most powerful political force.
Hours before Donald Trump arrived at the Manhattan criminal courthouse Tuesday, hundreds of his most ardent supporters gathered at a park just across the street. The New York Young Republican Club had organized the protest, inviting Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and conservative influencers like Jack Posobiec to speak.
, but the line between the two could be blurry — it’s hard to pick out credentialed press when everyone’s got a camera.Almost every crowd member I spoke to said they were there to protest the former president’s imminent arrest. But there was little protesting being done. Greene opened the rally that morning to palpable energy,“the injustice, the corruption, and the communist Democrats.” But after she left, 15 minutes into the event, the mood deflated. Later, embattled Republican Rep.
Trump carved out an entirely new online media ecosystem with his 2016 campaign. He leveraged his significant social media following to become president, launching the careers of a whole generation of right-wing internet stars. For Trump, the mainstream media and the “fake news” would never give him a fair shake. Fighting this grievance online by sharing memes and trolling the libs became the right’s most honored force for political activism.
Surprisingly, Jeffrey was the only person who spoke to me who was streaming to Rumble or some other well-known conservative-friendly social media network. After Trump was banned from platforms like Facebook and Twitter following the January 6th insurrection, a crop of alternative platforms grew in users. But over the last six months, most have collapsed. App store owners banned Parler,. Sources told me last month that Gettr, another platform, had laid off most of its employees.
Without cell service, I noticed more and more people walking around with their camera apps open. Some were recording, but it wasn’t entirely clear what they were filming. Some protesters had been rolling for minutes, phones pointed in one direction where nothing was really happening. Only a handful of people were pressed against the barricades to catch a glimpse of the first criminally indicted president in history.
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