Democrats lost control of Washington in 2024 because they were living in a bubble. The rest of America had ventured into alternative media to hear broader perspectives about topics like immigration and DEI, but Democrats remained stuck in the Obama-era information ecosystem, taking cues from network news, the New York Times, and celebrity speeches at the Oscars.

Social media made the problem worse. Algorithms fed Democrats a steady diet of elite-approved cultural signals while woke progressives punished nonconformists with mobs and cancellations. Liberals cut off friends and family who strayed from the script, retreating into ever-smaller circles of the like-minded.

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