Hi, I'm Will Summer. Welcome to The Daily Beast's Fever Dreams. I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast, and I'm currently working on a book about Q&ONN called Trust the Plan for Harper Collins coming out later this year.

And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also a reporter at The Daily Beast, and I'm the author of the book Off the Edge, Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why people will believe anything. On this podcast, we're going to take you on

plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary fanatics, infecting the way that millions of

Americans view the world and how they vote. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration,

the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers is still pushing our mainstream

political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.

Okay, welcome to fever dreams. I'm your slightly under the weather host, Will. Kelly, what is going on

with Twitter and Elon Musk? Oh, I don't know if you heard from your sickbed, but Elon Musk is bringing

free speech back to Twitter. Without consequence, it's great. I'm going to debut some truly insane

new opinions. I'm going to become very anti-Delaware or something like that. It's going to be

really good for me. Yeah, so you're checking in on the folks we normally follow. I mean,

this is obviously a huge deal for them. I mean, a lot of their heroes, let's say, Gavin McGinnis, founder of the

proud boys, Milo Ewanopoulos, obviously the big one, the big guy, Donald Trump himself, were banned

from Twitter. And this, I will say, I think, a month ago, so you never could have predicted that

this really worked out well for them, I guess, because now there's at least a chance that all

of their favorite characters will return to the platform. It's amazing. I thought they were all enjoying truth social, but I guess they do want to come back and hang out with the libs.

Well, and this is one funny thing. I mean, so truth social, of course, we've talked about our passion for posting truths, which is the true social version of tweets on Donald Trump's social network.

Yeah, I mean, it really does seem like truth social now is going to be dead in the water.

Trump doesn't even post there. I think there's a big question about whether he'll return to Twitter if he gets the chance. can finally be unbridled and speak their minds, and it's just going to be for conservatives.

And they get there, and they're all in one place.

And they're like, well, I don't like this.

This isn't any fun.

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