Ezra Klein

You don't feel it.

Like you don't feel how he's going to repair the breach.

Right.

I want to end here on the big attentional campaign that kind of ended in failure, which was Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles.

Because if you were online, it was like this former reality star is coming out of nowhere.

He's got the greatest ads.

You can't be on X for five minutes without seeing something from him.

You know, he's going to, you know, maybe win 50% in the runoff.

Maybe, you know, maybe at least make the runoff.

But then it didn't.

I think he underperformed Donald Trump.

I think and I think it's a great counterpoint to many of the theories I was saying.

So I'm glad we're talking about it because I mean, it was a very successful campaign intentionally.

I do think there's something going on.

We should just say.

There's something going on with X right now under Elon Musk that is a little distinct to that platform, which is that it's become.

A kind of hermetically sealed hothouse of insanity that when you enter it, when you're not in it all the time, you enter it.

You're like, you guys are nuts.

Yeah.

And that's exactly the way many people felt about like what we might call kind of peak woke Twitter.