I think this is kind of reductive.
I mean it’s a nice narrative and sounds like what we want to hear but is it really true? Trump has had his metaphoric pants pulled down a bunch of times but he has more influence than ever.
I don’t think there’s any simple 3 sentence explanation. Trump is a symptom of a complex array of interconnected problems.
I’ll never call it X.
It’s twitter. Perhaps xitter if you must. On mastodon it’s universally referred to as “the other place” which is acceptable.