Although I don’t use Twitter as much as I did in the past, I still like to occasionally use the platform to troll Oklahoma City mayor David Holt, or as we affectionately call him – Mayor McSelfie
Whether we’re lampooning him for taking bad pics of food, chasing celebrities for photographs, and bragging about his national media appearances – or knocking him for cozying up the local ruling class, routinely avoiding discussion of important issues facing the city, and simply being one vote out of nine on the city council – we never turn down the opportunity to poke the Mayoral buttons with a selfie stick.
Knowing all that, it was a bit fun to watch him duke it out yesterday with a group of people who are equally as insufferable – the local Twitterati.
I guess Mayor Holt – a self-described moderate Republican who introduced a wide variety of draconian right-wing ALEC-inspired legislation during his time as an Oklahoma State Senator – felt the need to grandstand a bit, portray himself as a rational human, and share some thoughts on the effects of extremism in the American political ecosystem.
For example:
Both major U.S. political parties have extremists. They are extreme in their ideology and their temperament. In both cases, these true-believing extremists are a very small minority. The rest of the members have to decide to what extent they will compromise with them. 🧵
— Mayor David Holt (@davidfholt) January 3, 2023