To put it another way, I think Musk’s purchase of Twitter has helped reify the vague pundit instinct that Trump in some way channels the will of an inchoate true Volk, because now the voice of the Volk speaks through X, the everything app
Quinta Jurecic
Brought a little bit of Italy home with me
Recently I was at an event where a reasonably respectable person talked about how Trump’s threats to Greenland speak to the human desire to go on a grand mission, etc, and that’s why we need to respect the mass appeal of this idea. Invading Greenland polls at like 6% approval. But they like it on X
