David Pakman

And it's relieving when I get to keep it.

And on the left, we're not the opposite of that.

We're not going around saying the higher the tax, the better let's rate.

We're kind of saying, Hey, we're in a society.

If we want to have certain public services, we need to set a tax level.

That's like a structural thing, which social media explodes.

And then that's how you get the disinformation that's really simple with a clear scapegoat.

You know, they're eating the cats and the dogs and all of this stuff.

It's built for these digital platforms.

And so I don't deny that the pro-Trump biases of the people in charge matter and are important, but I actually think it's slightly less important than it might seem because there's such an algorithmic bias to the sort of stuff that the right is putting out.

I mean, I think I think part of it is just the messages are inherently a little more complicated.

And I say that without even a value judgment, like they could be more complicated and better or not.

I happen to think most of them are better, but that doesn't necessarily have to have to be the case.

I think that.

being late to the game to some degree and skepticism about some of us as creators and being slower to adopt that and being more risk averse as well.

I mean, none of these are new sort of insights, but if you put them all together, it has really slowed Democrats down quite a bit.

I mean, only after Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election in December,

the Biden white house said, let's have a bunch of creators here to kind of talk to us about how to work with them and this sort of thing.

And then the other thing is I can't speak to whether this is unique on the left because I'm not in touch with the staffers of any Republicans.

But one thing that does happen often is the communication I have with staffers from democratic elected officials