Source: Persuasion
by Sam Kahn
“For a long period during the 2000s, when the Democratic Party establishment seemed largely to have lost the ability to connect to swing voters, it was more or less Comedy Central that acted as the real locus of the Democratic Party — it was very difficult to watch Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert and not end up feeling that Republicans were humorless fanatics and that the Dems, if absurd in their own way, were at least roughly on the side of sanity and good governance. But what has happened, with a change-over in the structure of informational flows over the past decade, is that Democrats have lost that advantage — and still somehow haven’t processed the change or how catastrophic it is for their party’s prospects.” (08/01/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/until-the-democrats-adapt-to-new