AI Hitler videos and ‘DOGE dividends’: How two Republicans became the ‘most influential losers’
Casey Putsch and James Fishback built national followings almost entirely online. Both lost their respective Republican gubernatorial primaries by wide margins. The results warrant closer attention than a routine underdog defeat, because both campaigns were built on an identical and identifiably flawed theory of how digital attention converts into votes.  Putsch never had a realistic […]




