The 2024 US Presidential Election Is Pure Signal
By that, I do not mean to demean or diminish Trump’s sweeping victory. Quite the opposite in fact: it enshrines his victory as a truly historical and uniquely significant world event. Brexit and the 2016 Trump victory were majority signal, which were quickly submerged, especially so after 2020. Trump 47, 2024, is a huge, unadulterated signal, a “giant electoral asteroid” as Matt Taibbi calls it:
America’s intellectual class, and indeed the globalised intellectual elite, ignore it at their extreme peril.
Musk gets it, and he’s part of the way there. But this is bigger even than X.
Don’t tune out from the signal. It’s there for a purpose. Amplify it.
I will add, that without the steal in 2020, and the subsequent overreach in all things totalitarian, that many would not have realized the threat until much later.
Now most are aware, and Trump is assembling a much better team to deal with it.
I am almost optimistic.
I like that…signal! So true. As for Musk…I’m still skeptical. He walks and talks in the “right” way now but there is still shadow banning and other suppression mechanisms that remain on X-Twitter. The mantra is “freedom of speech, not reach”. So, I cannot completely buy into his transformation just yet.