Twits on Twitter, the Art of the Con Dept. 0
George Lakoff and Gil Duran consider Donald Trump’s tactical twits. They suggest that he uses twitter to control the discourse and distract the polity. Here’s one of their points:
Trump isn’t a genius. He’s a super salesman, and has been for most of his life.
Now he’s president, and our gullibility to his antics threatens our democracy. That’s because Trump often uses social media to distract from what he’s actually doing, like dismantling our government and robbing the working class to pay off the rich. He often uses his tweet tantrums to “step on” big developments in the Russia investigation, creating a bigger story (“nuclear button!”) to distract attention.
