‘It’s all about trolling’: how far-right influencers are shaping Republican narrative
by David Smith in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6A6BQ)
With the old media order losing ground, a new cadre of extreme voices has emerged, precipitating a GOP shift to Maga populism
He has a platform that most politicians would envy. But Jack Posobiec is not to be found on America's major TV networks or in its newspapers. He is among a cadre of online influencers who now shape the far right - and could help decide the Republican presidential primary race in 2024.
Two operatives made the very same prediction, that Posobiec will matter as much to future GOP voters as Washington Post columnist George Will did to Republicans a generation ago," political journalist David Weigel wrote in a Semafor newsletter last week.
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