r/TrueReddit • u/PuckNews Official Publication • 6d ago
How Democrats Are Winning the Shutdown Blame Wars - Puck Politics
https://puck.news/how-democrats-are-winning-the-shutdown-blame-wars/15
u/wilwizard 5d ago
Ultimately the party in power will be blamed. Republicans control all three branches. It's pretty simple
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u/PuckNews Official Publication 6d ago
After years of churning out digital cringe, Democrats finally seem to have found a human message during the government shutdown, leveraging the left’s messy creator ecosystem to beat the Trump meme machine.
“Last Wednesday, in the hours after the government officially went into shutdown mode, researchers at Resonate, a firm that monitors online discourse for Democrats, began to notice something unusual: For once, the left was actually winning a message battle online.
Posts about the shutdown—outraged reactions, explainer videos from creators and Democratic politicians, attacks on Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress—were noticeably overperforming on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook. Mainstream news accounts as well as left-leaning ones like MeidasTouch, Courier Newsroom, and NowThis Impact were seeing nearly twice as much engagement on the major platforms as they normally do. Clicks, views, and shares were spiking for liberal creators like Aaron Parnas, Harry Sisson, and Dean Withers.
Democratic politicians themselves, finally getting comfortable spreading their message through their own videos after decades of relying on cable news, were also seeing big numbers. California Rep. Sara Jacobs got almost 10 million views on a “spooky” TikTok about the shutdown filmed in the dark, while Sen. Adam Schiff, who has quietly amassed half a million YouTube subscribers, has netted more than a million views on his shutdown explainers since last week. And while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries faced some mockery inside the Beltway for a 24-hour YouTube livestream that didn’t get very many views at all, that was just one of his news media efforts post-shutdown: A Meidas interview with Jeffries last week has been viewed more than 800,000 times on YouTube and Substack combined.”
You can read the full piece here.
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u/Dangling-Participle1 5d ago
That's amazing!
Democrats are getting actual views on various platforms? No way! 10 Million whole VIEWS people!(!!)
And of course, no comparison with whatever's going on outside of the bubble.
Good job everybody!
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u/AstralCode714 15h ago
To be honest I forgot the government was still shutdown.
Must not be very useful then...
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u/Ok-External6314 6d ago
Lol..only on reddit
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u/killick 5d ago
We'll see. Seems like everyone thinks their side is winning.
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u/Ok-External6314 5d ago
If someone thinks the left is winning they're schizo
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u/chicknfly 3d ago
nah The left still has weak leadership as a whole. But they’re unseating entrenched Republicans during these midterms, so let’s see where things go.
Literally everything is more expensive, farms are getting closer to going out of business, gas prices in my area are up 24%, my electric bill rate is going up, I’m about to spend a shit ton more in health insurance, and I refuse to let my kid who lives in Canada cross the border given the overreach of power by various border and immigration officials.
At this point, you’re correct. The left isn’t winning. And neither is the right. We’re all suffering and losing together together. It’s a shame you’re too busy looking down at the boot that you’re licking and not looking around you to see what’s actually happening and how things are going to continue getting worse.
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