LBJ rode Texas oil money. Kennedy the rise of television. There is a new political wave that the platforms tech has built will usher into the world And those that understand tech will ride it We see it already with Vote Leave, Five Stars, and more. And they barely know tech
We don't know what the counterfactual is but it's hard to imagine a successful trump campaign without his use of social media to bypass the traditional gatekeepers of media and by extension the public's perception.