Sigh, I admire the data analysis stuff this guy does and it's nice he tries to track how many people follow Russian made accounts or what not, but I feel the article/mindset here is still the same as in every political article recently:
People only voted for Trump because they were 'tricked'.
It's like media folk and political pundits cannot fathom the idea that the political system is simply broken for many people. Yes it's likely trolls and state sponsored propaganda helped, since a situation where people are so heavily divided is easy to stir up controversy in.
But at the end of the day, what was on offer in the recent election? Four years of 'more of the same' or someone who claimed to overthrow the system. A choice between an insane person and a bunch of career politicians with no charisma.
Just feels like it's a constant set of searches for a nefarious conspiracy rather than accepting that the current system isn't offering much to anyone outside of large corporations and that people were getting sick of it.
People only voted for Trump because they were 'tricked'.
It's like media folk and political pundits cannot fathom the idea that the political system is simply broken for many people. Yes it's likely trolls and state sponsored propaganda helped, since a situation where people are so heavily divided is easy to stir up controversy in.
But at the end of the day, what was on offer in the recent election? Four years of 'more of the same' or someone who claimed to overthrow the system. A choice between an insane person and a bunch of career politicians with no charisma.
Just feels like it's a constant set of searches for a nefarious conspiracy rather than accepting that the current system isn't offering much to anyone outside of large corporations and that people were getting sick of it.