Liberal commentator Andrew Sullivan doesn’t like the new media world. He remembers, back when he was editor of The New Republic in the 1990s, the business manager clearing his throat at a meeting and asking

What did we think we were going to do about this new thing called the Internet? If discourse went online, as everyone seems to think it will, what would happen to the magazine?

Good question, Sullivan replied: “if the web was what it seemed to be, then magazines would surely cease to exist.”

Because, he realized, “if images and video could be as accessible online as words, they would always win any contest for eyeballs,” and he wondered “how a literary and political magazine could adjust to the web… except as a peripheral, minor preserve of a few.”

What I failed to consider was how this would have a huge cultural and thereby political effect that would shake the reasoning and deliberating foundations of liberal democracy.

AT via Magic Studio" class="post-image-right" src="https://images.americanthinker.com/fz/fzktvcirrtculj9o1nru_640.jpg" width="450" />Guess where this is leading to? Of course, President Trump’s speech at the UN!

…a series of unconnected rants and digressions, baseless assertions and unseemly insults, a stream of addled and angry consciousness with no real relationship to coherence, or reason, or persuasion.

Sounds exactly like a mostly peaceful protest by a busload of paid lefty activists in front of an ICE facility!

To Sullivan, the internet revolution is what made Trump possible.

A post-literate president rose through the........

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