Ezra Klein

So part of it, I think, is a product of how much that was in X candidacy.

Yeah.

There's also a question of what's real there.

Yeah.

Right.

What's being clip bar.

Totally.

What has a lot of bots pushing it?

But the other lesson I think here, it is never going to be the case that attention is the entire story.

There has to be something else happening.

And I think with Pratt, there was nothing else happening, really.

There was no reason for that man to be mayor, first of all.

Why that guy?

I do think the Pratt campaign to me really is an object lesson in what X is at this point that I think would be very useful for everyone to internalize.

Because you and I both remember back in the day when people would say Twitter is not real life.

And weirdly, I think that's even more the case now under the algorithmic empire of one Elon Musk.

I think one of the greatest advantages Democrats have going into 2028 is not being is that Elon Musk has control of Twitter.

I think people think of this as a problem for Democrats.

It's the opposite, because there's really something to that warping Twitter and

towards a hard right, conspiratorial, hermetic nature.