On today’s edition of The Editors, guest host Noah Rothman is joined by Michael, Charlie, and Maddy. Among the topics they discuss is Democrats’ nervousness over banning the popular social-media app, TikTok.
“There was something in the Wall Street Journal . . . where it focused on the degree to which Democratic campaign professionals are terrified by the prospect of a TikTok ban, in part because it is going to alienate young voters,” Noah said. “And they quoted not just campaign professionals, and unnamed campaign professionals, but even Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo.” Is this realistic? He’s skeptical, and pitches the question to MBD.
MBD doesn’t think “it sounds crazy, but . . . the more loyal Americans are to TikTok and the more that they even feel that their political identity might be wrapped up in it, then actually, that makes the case more urgent to get rid of it.”
“You have, roughly, what, 40 percent of the country using this app on their phones. And if a significant number are forming their political identity in relation to it, yeah, of course you want to get rid of it if it’s controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. I don’t think Democrats should be afraid of being the adults on this.”
Listen to the whole conversation, below.