The information genie is out of the bottle, and it's not going back. In the digital world, people are abandoning what Tom Woods calls the 3×5 index card of allowable opinion and having real debates, without any media filter.

It's possible to get the "news" from social media feeds tailored to one's own viewpoint. So when CNN, for example, shows poll results that suggest a certain trend, we're all supposed to accept this as gospel truth. But if CNN never shows up in your social media feed, and you don't watch CNN (and I know you don't), it's as though the poll never happened, at least for you. And there are more and more people turning off and going around the gatekeepers. The bottom line is that the media and the parties have lost control of the approved narrative.