Worry less about TikTokers and Bin Laden — fret more that Mike Johnson shares the terrorist's views

Twitter personality Yashar Ali posted a video purporting to show that it had suddenly become trendy on TikTok for young people to read quotes from Osama bin Laden's " Letter to America" Marcotte : The story was swiftly debunked by tech journalists who pointed out that the trend amounted to just a few trolls.

She says the story was more a story about how Twitter operates these days , but there's no real reason to believe it's radicalizing the youth into sympathy with Islamic terrorists.

Julian Zelizer : It's true that Johnson has a far better shot than bin Laden ever did of ending American democracy.

Zelizer says Johnson has signaled sympathy towards Donald Trump's insurrection of January 6, 2021 .

He says Johnson was one of the leaders of Trump 's coup effort, heading the coalition of House Republicans demanding that electoral votes for President Joe Biden be thrown out. He says it's the same people we've been dealing with for years now: Trump and his right-wing acolytes.