Addison McDowell worked for Ted Budd, worked as a lobbyist, 31 years old ran for Congress, got Trump’s endorsement in the primary, headed to a runoff with Mark Walker.

Trump offered Walker a job – Walker got out of the race. McDowell won, took the oath of office, posted on X he’d sponsored a bill to change the name of Washington’s Dulles Airport to Trump International Airport.

Jumping on board Congressmen, posting on X, cheered.

Topping McDowell, Congresswoman Anna Paula Luna posted she’d introduced a bill to add Trump to Mount Rushmore.

Kristi Noem took office – wearing an armored police vest, baseball cap, dark hair cascading down her shoulders, posted a video saying she was getting ‘dirt bags’ off the streets. Her post went viral.

Renaming an airport, Trump on Mount Rushmore, an armored vest, a baseball cap – that’s politics on social media.

Should you take it seriously?

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Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.