Ben Smith on the Bust of the Digital Media Age
Deconstructed
The Rise and Fall of the Right-Wing Populist Right
Ben Smith: I was genuinely surprised in reporting it out to see the extent to which the people who created the sort of populist right were just there the whole time. He says he came up in a digital world that saw itself as basically progressive and of the left. "I do think that ultimately like the internet was going to swallow everything, right? And it wasn't that it had been sort of this niche space"
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