Thread. A chunk of the progressive left watched the rise of Trump's post-truth politics and figured "let's try using his own tactics against him" https://twitter.com/awprokop/status/1341019008993284098
The problem with this approach is that outside the Twitter bubble, your rank and file leftist/progressive/liberal tends to spot misinformation more readily than your average Trump supporter. https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1341052991147814914
I used to believe that progressive pundits were generally less disingenuous than moderates and conservatives, but I no longer see that as being the case. https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1341181104087322625
Online snark and lies that can be disproved with a five-second Google search may win the retweet battle, but people see through them - and worse, disillusion the IRL supporters we actually need to build power.
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