Why I Ditched Twitter for Good

And why I'm back on Substack.

Many of you probably know me from the three minutes I spent on Tucker Carlson Tonight, destroying the conservative establishment for its utter weakness on immigration. (If not, check out the clip from 2019 here).

That segment radically transformed the debate on immigration in this country.

The immigration moratorium was considered a “fringe” idea (despite the fact that former congressman Tom Tancredo introduced a moratorium bill on the House floor as late as the mid-2000’s) when I brought it up.

Now it has become relatively mainstream, considering that American college graduates are losing jobs - particularly on STEM fields - to millions of legal foreigners each year.

For the record, I’ll add that the crew over at The Daily Wire, and even Charlie Kirk - all of whom I bashed in that segment for being weak on immigration - have moved further right on that issue since the segment. For that I applaud them.

My sentiment was apparently shared by many Americans, because that segment made me more famous than I ever wanted to be. Not Hollywood famous, but D.C. famous. (Many Twitter personalities, in their narcissism, confuse the two).

I could have written and been published in any outlet I wanted. For a while, I was. I had a publisher willing to publish my next book, had I chosen to write it.

But here’s what happens when you rise to a certain level of notoriety: people create an image in their own minds of who they think you are. It’s purely subjective. It’s out of your control. And the minute you deviate from that image that they have created, you are attacked viciously by people who formerly supported you. (This, I suspect, is why real Hollywood superstars lose their minds).

Living under that microscope was irksome to me.

So I left Twitter, and for the most part have left public life.

Twitter and other social media apps also turn you into a raging narcissist. Nobody feels the need for admiration more than an idiot with half-a-million Twitter followers. It’s unhealthy. Twitter isn’t even a real place, and 24 hours after you’re gone, whether you’re banned or you leave willingly, people forget you existed.

In many ways, that phenomenon has worked in my favor, as I wanted to be forgotten.

But I still believe everything I’ve always believed. And after my public life detox, I’m ready to carry on.

You can find me here, and at The Star News Network, where I do state-based news reporting in swing states across the country.

I’ll be continuing with my national news reporting here - with you, my audience of loyal subscribers and away from the noise and distraction of social media.

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