No one is reading long form.
The emergence of the post-literacy world is accompanied by the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain, a mental soup of superstition and magical thinking... We see this most clearly in the mainstreaming of xenophobia, conspiracies, quack medicines, and naked fascism.

This has been relevant since 2024, too. He got the Haitian thing from an avowed neo-Nazi, he cites Yarvin who says black people should be reenslaved, he constantly talks about “western civilization” in that not-even-remotely-plausibly-deniable way that they all thing is so clever

not to harp on this every hour but you could literally pluck a thousand pieces of U.S. journalism from the newswires, and find maybe TWO that hint at the fact our President is completely insane, and has no idea how literally anything works even if he wasn't

The US government is totally audience-captured by a tiny faction of internet fascists, and spends huge amounts of time trying to impress them, dedicating official communications channels to barely-concealed in-group references, and making horrific, murderous policy decisions to thrill this group