Can a Social Media Platform Create a Parallel Nation?

Gab founder Andrew Torba says yes--and his vision of an imagined community based on libertarian populism has a long history among dispossessed white Americans

If you want more updates and reflections on the aftermath of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan, make sure you don’t forget the bullet points at the end of this post. Now that the shock, confusion, and hot takes are over, the end of this war, as Amanda Demmer noted last week, will linger, as will the challenging work of getting Afghan allies …