This thread is correct about every media funding model -- including reader funding -- having flaws, but it's absolutely wrong about who profits most.
Those who most enriched themselves using crowd funding over the past 5 years, *by far*, were anti-Trump #Resistance liberals.
Those who most enriched themselves using crowd funding over the past 5 years, *by far*, were anti-Trump #Resistance liberals.
https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/1431297813216997387
Since 2015, the easiest and most certain way to get rich quick by pandering to an ideological faction was to turn yourself into a non-stop Trump-is-Hitler-and-controlled-by-Russia message machine. Ask @TheRickWilson, @davidfrum, @BillKristol, @MalcolmNance, @JoyAnnReid etc. etc.
The top 3 highest-earnest Substacks, for instance, are all about little to nothing other than anti-Trump hysteria, still. It's Boston College #Resistance Prof. Heather Cox Richardson and the 2 #NeverTrump life-long GOP operatives of the Bulwark & Dispatch. That's the best grift.
If your goal were careerism and self-enrichment, the path to take since 2015 could not have been more obvious: just convert yourself into the shrillest and most hysterical anti-Trump polemicist. Those who thrived and profited the most are those who did that.
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