Democrats used a coordinated network of social media influencers to make affordability the defining issue of the midterms, and they’ll do it again.

If you think the title of this blog is an exaggeration, trust me, it’s not. Months before the midterm elections, an organization infiltrated the social media network with the lie that affordability was the driving issue in this country. And through their network, they convinced voters it was true.

It was a lie, and it cost Republicans the election.

How did this happen?

The Democrat party has formed the American Accountability Network, which can be weaponized to promote a key issue across social media. Van Jones of CNN broke the news after the election and jeered that Republicans never figured out what was happening.

The American Accountability Network selects agents to communicate its message, and those agents recruit thousands of people/subagents to post the message on social media. In the case of affordability, people were told over and over again that the problem was the result of Trump’s and Republicans’ activities, that what the people were feeling was true, and the Democrats were the only ones to solve the problem.

Here is how the AAN describes its strategy:

The American Accountability Network is a powerful consortium of advocates, content creators, organizers, and influencers who together have formed an ecosystem that has the ability to shape political narratives, reach the public at scale, and mobilize people to take action.

Our core network online consists of thousands of advocates, including many who have hundreds of thousands and millions of followers. Across all the major platforms our network reaches an average of 200+ million people each week.

They also list on their website the people who propagate “right wing misinformation,” to suggest that their organization is working

The American Accountability Network selects agents to communicate its message, and those agents recruit thousands of people/subagents to post the message on social media. In the case of affordability, people were told over and over again that the problem was the result of Trump’s and Republicans’ activities, that what the people were feeling was true, and the Democrats were the only ones to solve the problem.

Here is how the AAN describes its strategy:

The American Accountability Network is a powerful consortium of advocates, content creators, organizers, and influencers who together have formed an ecosystem that has the ability to shape political narratives, reach the public at scale, and mobilize people to take action.

Van Jones had permission to reveal this information. I suspect he spoke out because he realized that there is likely no way to stop the Democrats from using this propaganda approach. This is how he further explained the process on CNN:

Driving the kitchen table affordability message and tying that to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative, the Republicans never figured out what we were doing. And what that meant was everywhere you go, people were talking about affordability and they were talking about kitchen table issues. They couldn’t get any traction on these cultural war issues anymore because we figured out how to get around all that.

So it’s not just all the door knocking that was done, which is amazing. It’s not just our amazing candidate quality. We had something called the American Accountability Network.

You might have heard President Trump protest that the economy was not as bad as people were saying. He explained that unemployment was low, wages were rising, inflation was dropping, job growth was increasing, manufacturing employment was up, and tax refunds were up.

But the media, which invariably support the Democrats, were reluctant to report on all these positive economic indicators, and tended to downplay them. In particular, the media repeatedly reported that people were not “feeling” improvements; that improved wages don’t make an impact unless they rise substantially; and that prices are not dropping by much.

The facts are clear: Although Trump Derangement Syndrome undoubtedly influenced some voters in the midterms, others were dissatisfied because they had yet to see improvements in the economic areas that mattered most to them. Democrats exploited that dissatisfaction with a powerful strategy for shaping public perceptions. By flooding social media with the same distorted or misleading messages, repeated over and over, they convinced voters that those messages were true.

Republicans will have a difficult time overcoming the flood of negative information that Democrats will be putting out in future elections. Democrats can essentially cherry-pick the issues that will work in their favor, and Republicans will not be able to stop them.

Susan Quinn, American Thinker