Does the Internet Keep Trump Alive? It Sure Does.

The first time I ever got involved in a political campaign was in 1971 when I helped my uncle put up a campaign storefront for his friend who was running for the State Senate in the New Jersey town where both she and my uncle happened to live. The woman won the race, she went on to become a power in state politics and my uncle, who was an attorney, eventually got a side hustle negotiating contracts with various labor unions whose members worked for the state.

I have been in and out of political campaigns since that first campaign experience now more than 50 years ago, and if I have learned one thing through all those experiences, it’s that you can’t win any electoral contest if the voters don’t know your name.

So, no matter where you stand on the issues, no matter how you come across when you stand in front of Wal Mart shaking hands, no matter how many times you stand on some street corner waving to the passing cars, you better make sure that when someone says your name to someone else, the person hearing your name doesn’t reply with a big ‘huh?’

In the olden days, i.e., the days when the word ‘internet’ had something to do with a communications system used by the military and a few techie geeks on college campuses here and there, you got your name known by running ads in the local newspapers or walking…