Democrats… winning the internet for once?
In the first days of the shutdown, the left’s message actually outperformed the right’s across every major platform—TikTok, YouTube, X, you name it.
Progressives are finally figuring out the “content flywheel”: flooding feeds, handing clips to creators, and letting the message travel beyond MSNBC-land. Meanwhile, the GOP’s old playbook—immigrants, outrage, sombreros—just isn’t hitting the algorithm like it used to.
The big question: can Democrats keep this momentum once the internet’s attention span moves on to Taylor Swift? Puck’s Peter Hamby dives in at the link in bio.
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