{"id":2559,"date":"2026-06-06T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/why-republicans-suck-at-social-media\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:00:00","slug":"why-republicans-suck-at-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/why-republicans-suck-at-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Republicans suck at social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p>Republicans have been able to use social media to attract attention, rally voters, and impact politics. But the party has a track record of embarrassing gaffes and bigoted memes that has exposed the significant downside of its social media focus. That dynamic was on display this past week after GOP Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee posted on X, \u201chomosexuality has no place in America\u201d\u2014a hateful\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2026\/6\/6\/800049901\/series\/why-republicans-suck-at-social-media\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\r\n<br> andyogles,donaldtrump,elonmusk,explainingtheright,factchecking,media,socialmedia,x,series\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2026\/6\/6\/800049901\/series\/why-republicans-suck-at-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link  www.dailykos.com<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republicans have been able to use social media to attract attention, rally voters, and impact politics. But the party has a track record of embarrassing gaffes and bigoted memes that has exposed the significant downside of its social media focus. That dynamic was on display this past week after GOP Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee posted on X, \u201chomosexuality has&hellip;","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1114,548,991,1115,1116,717,1119,1117,1118],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-andyogles","tag-donaldtrump","tag-elonmusk","tag-explainingtheright","tag-factchecking","tag-media","tag-series","tag-socialmedia","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}