It's the online AI/bot-filled echo chambers reactionaries and liberals created after covid; it's leading to immense miscalculation because all the content these people consume reinforces their priors and triggers a self-referential psychosis where they genuinely think the average Joe actually responds positively to these deranged posts

This stuff is like acid to the long-term foundation of US politics; they've lost entire generations but it'll still be a couple years before something pieces their veil and they realize how much irreparable damage they caused to the empire