X-ing out X

The power and promise of collective non-cooperation

Below, Waleed Shahid, the progressive strategist known to Ink readers for his visionary post-election manifesto, asks why powerful elected Democrats are still using X — and whether they can stop cooperating with power and take the necessary steps to break Elon Musk’s stranglehold on the attention economy.

Shahid has worked on campaigns for Alexandria Oca…