Why does Twitter need to be fixed in order to save democracy from its existential crisis? It was a mistake for news networks to solicit debate questions during presidential debates using Twitter. It was a mistake when candidates and pundits made Twitter their primary platform. It is a shallow means of communication that awards attention-seeking and grandstanding and it has always been that way. A racist reality TV president is the logical result of the anti-intellectual political bent that went into full swing during the Bush era and culminated in a political landscape dominated by Twitter bots.