Every so often, the Hate Machine shows you its inner machinery: how the trolling and social media narrative industry that fuels MAGA actually works. Most days, you see the results, not the gory sausage-making.
As I’ve worked on The Hate Machine’s book draft this year, I’ve collected examples of how it works, and realized the system is so hermetic, so well-oiled that we almost never see the process clearly unless it breaks down.
Tuesday was one of those days.
Yesterday’s trainwreck hearings, in which Senator Eric Schmitt (R-Slackjaw Junction, MO) tried and failed to catch Jack Smith in a perjury trap, give you a roadmap to the Hate Machine’s social media and press operating system. I’ll show you how.
