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The point is to boost collective morale, to allow for a mass expression of rage, and to galvanize the public—to propel people out of their postelection exhaustion and malaise and remind them that we can and must fight back.

And that’s why many postelection pundits hypothesized that Joe Rogan and other prominent “podcast bros” have helped rehabilitate Trump and expand his reach, while negative content about Kamala Harris from news influencers was twice as likely to be critical, according to Pew.

Given Harris’ name recognition and fundraising prowess, she would probably prompt some Democrats to drop out of the race, which Porter alluded to in a December postelection conference at UC Irvine.

Reddit’s vinyl community featured a postelection question about the “potential tariff effect on vinyl,” which earned a grim reply: “If tariffs are instituted on a grand scale in the States, you likely won’t have money for hobbies anyway.”

As a result, the stock market has gone completely haywire this week, erasing its postelection booms and plunging the financial sector to some of its worst lows since the 2023 Silicon Valley Bank collapse.