Yet questions remain. Why, amid the sea of views in this new world of unlimited access to every sort of opinion, were authoritarian views so often the ones that seem to win out? Why not transcendentalism, say, or radical vegetarianism? Why did the new media ecosystem pick out the messages of the 3P autocrats as winners? What made these sorts of pitches so devastatingly effective in the information age? Why, in other words, were so many willing to overlook the obvious
