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When Elon Musk bought eX-Twitter, conservatives were delighted. Now they had a platform where conservative thoughts (and lies) would be tolerated, even welcomed. Nothing would be censored. It was a great day.
Until it wasn't. It has become a cesspool of hate and lies, but that is not the problem. The real problem is that now MAGA folks have a big megaphone to attack ... other MAGA folks. That wasn't the game plan. Rather than unite the right, it is helping to divide them, and some of them are getting sick of it.
Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (R) recently announced his plans to leave eX-Twitter due to what he calls its "warped projection of reality." Former Breitbart editor Raheem Kassam deleted the app from his phone and wrote: "X is a post-apocalyptic cesspool of bots, pedophilia and political illiteracy. I deleted it from my phone because it was making me dumber."
When Musk rolled out a new feature earlier this year to show which country a tweet was coming from, many MAGA militia members were surprised to learn the most active pro-Trump and pro-MAGA accounts were coming from abroad, largely Russia. Oops.
A new algorithm promotes short video clips over links to serious conservative articles. According to conservative activist Christopher Rufo: "That's a troublesome trend for the right in particular, because you have actual lunatics like Candace Owens that have garnered the biggest audiences in the business." What he means is that crazy people like Owens see no value in actually winning elections, getting power, and using it, which is what Rufo wants. He finds it wasteful that he and other people who care about implementing conservative policy issues now have to fight on eX-Twitter with lunatics like Owens who care only about getting a bigger audience and monetizing it.
The infighting on eX-Twitter is getting so bad that J.D. Vance had to devote most of his speech at TPUSA's AmericaFest gathering in December to trying to tamp down intra-MAGA feuds like those between America Firsters such as Tucker Carlson and more conventional conservatives such as Ben Shapiro.
This is a change from how the old Twitter was, with liberals fighting progressives and conservatives just laughing on the sidelines. Now the script has flipped. (V)