The Trump impact on US policy

[OUTLAW 09]

Jonathan Kay
On the tyranny of Twitter: How mob censure is changing the intellectual landscape

Without intending to, Twitter’s culture warriors have created a sort of crowdsourced ideological autocracy ― and paradoxically, it’s left-wingers who are often targets

http://nationalpost.com/news/world/j...5-7f4e934c2afb

In a recent column titled Twitter is destroying America, American columnist Damon Linker complained that politics now “take[s] place in a context that can best be compared to a high school cafeteria — the largest, most raucous high school cafeteria in human history. At the centre of the room sit the popular crowd — the reporters, editors, and pundits who work for the most prestigious mainstream media outlets in the country. Everyone else in the room wants their approval and attention, including the right-wing trolls seated at the burnout table in the corner, and the geeks who toil away on public policy at universities and think tanks, and more ordinary scribblers like me, who write for slightly lesser-known magazines and websites.”