Damon Linker

@DamonLinker · Philadelphia, PA · joined 27 Jan 2012

Senior Lecturer in Political Science @Penn / Senior Fellow @NiskanenCenter / Newsletter scribe

31 322Followers

1 064Following

71 970Posts total

756.1KViews on collected posts

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Damon Linker@DamonLinker2 Sep

My gut (always reliable) tells me Mark Penn likes to oversample Republicans. 2.4K views · 17 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Damon Linker@DamonLinker2 Sep

They retweeted an April 1954 tweet from Joseph McCarthy. 4.5K views · 68 likes · 13 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Damon Linker@DamonLinker2 Sep

This is a very smart bit of sociological analysis. 2.8K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Damon Linker@DamonLinker2 Sep

A theory of the "incelization of the lifeworld." https://t.co/qmbR7Ou2sF 8.5K views · 58 likes · 12 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Damon Linker@DamonLinker1 Sep

I don’t approve of MAGA using armed agents of the state to settle factional disputes. But that said: Dear Milo: Boo f-cking hoo. 6.7K views · 61 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Damon Linker@DamonLinker31 Aug

@DamonLinker Today's Republican hate not just Reagan, but McCain, and George H. W. Bush, and Mitt Romney, and Gerald Ford. And probably Teddy Roosevelt, US Grant and Abe Lincoln. Who cares what they think of their past great ones? They're sick cultists. 209 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Damon Linker@DamonLinker31 Aug

@DamonLinker That was 47 years ago. 47 years before this clip Reagan was a staunch New Deal Democrat. Reagan’s entire career is a textbook example of political change and transformation. To assume if Reagan were alive today he wouldn’t alter or update some positions from 40+ ye 437 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Damon Linker@DamonLinker31 Aug

@DamonLinker Bier ignores the fact that NAFTA came years later and did result in the "giant sucking sound" of jobs going to Mexico that Perot warned about. WTO for China came then too which offshored even more. 383 views · 13 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Damon Linker@DamonLinker31 Aug

I hope you understand that reminding Republicans of this in 2026 is much more likely to intensify their growing disdain for Reagan than to get them to say, "Oh the Great Reagan thought this? I should revise my current views to become more like him." 17.2K views · 172 likes · 30 reposts · 34 replies Open on X →

Damon Linker@DamonLinker30 Aug

Reagan launched his 1979 primary bid for the GOP nomination with an extended call for free immigration, free trade, and political integration with Mexico and Canada, where "peoples and commerce of its three strong countries flow freely across their present borders." https://t.co/ 713.1K views · 4.3K likes · 1.2K reposts · 265 replies Open on X →

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Visualizzazioni mediane3 654questo account924mediana per 10K–100K

Copertura, %11.66%questo account3.62%mediana per 10K–100K

Interazione, %1.21%questo account1.52%mediana per 10K–100K

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 10K–100K	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	3 654	924	3.95×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	11.66%	3.62%	3.22×
Tasso di interazione	1.21%	1.52%	0.79×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

713.1K30 Aug

17.2K31 Aug

383

437

209

6.7K1 Sep

8.5K2 Sep

2.8K

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Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.85%30 Aug

1.41%31 Aug

4.70%

2.52%

2.87%

1.00%1 Sep

0.89%2 Sep

0.42%

1.95%

0.84%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes60.8%4 757 in total

Reposts16.3%1 275 in total

Replies4.1%320 in total

Quotes3.5%271 in total

Bookmarks15.4%1 205 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

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