The Twitter Machine Isn't Covering Democracy

Matt Welch: Can you imagine that anyone actually cares in a substantial way about what is being shoved through in that $1.7 trillion? He says it's the ultimate end point of hot take economy, where people have no specialization and they don't care about this stuff. "I mean, if you turn on the Twitter machine, the things that are trending are not the fact that the government is being flown into a mountain," he says. 'It's more like, what did Elon say today? I don't give a shit'