The pro-Trump Internet is really good at convincing its audience that virality signals popular opinion, that its movement is and always will be winning.
There’s little actual evidence to suggest that Walk Away represents a mass exodus of Democrats in support of Trump. Instead, the Walk Away hashtag is going Conservative Internet viral on the hope that the country is on the verge of a mass conversion to Trumpian conservative thought. It never actually has to happen for the idea of it to go viral.
There is also evidence that the hashtag itself is being amplified artificially by bots and Russian trolls to seem bigger than it is, as well as using stock photos to depict people who are purported to be actual Walk Away-ers.
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