Comment by softwaredoug

One thing that's fascinating about this is how Twitter has become so centered around political discussion (& histrionics). It's become the backbone of the sort of inside-baseball of politics. The lightning rod at the center of both politics and Twitter is Trump. Trump is such a powerful force because he can bend the ridiculousness of the twitter conversation to his will. He's perhaps an outcome of all the incentives of the social network.

So limiting Trump is to me a kind of commentary on Twitter itself. Maybe something like a Trump is the end-game of a Twitter-like network?