CBS's Nate Burleson: "Post-presidency, what…keeps you up at night?"

Barack Obama: "The thing…I'm most worried about is…a divided conversation in part b/c we have a divided media…When I was growing up, you had three TV stations…We almost occupy different realities." pic.twitter.com/KrNWHjSgap

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 16, 2023

Now, I think he’s being quite sincere, and I think that this has been the No. 1 issue troubling liberals. The proliferation of alternative media and the decomposition of traditional media has destroyed their near-monopoly on setting the national conversation. For a moment — roughly from the Arab Spring to Obama’s reelection — liberals believed the new media were fundamentally on their side and a force for extending their rule.

Brexit and Trump destroyed all such illusions in 2016, and ever since, liberals have been trying to rebuild their control over the media by pressuring social-media companies, using the intelligence agencies to frighten these companies into compliance, and passing restrictive speech-harms laws in Europe.

[And the Left and its Leviathan allies keep getting more authoritarian as they fail. They will never stop until they control all narratives and make the space safe for their propaganda. — Ed]