"President Donald Trump had issued that order, "for all American flags," earlier in the day, in a post on the Playskool version of Twitter where he does such things. "Maintaining a flag is a responsibility that shouldn't be taken lightly," the GOP chairman, Vance Patrick, wrote. "Post anyone who isn't taking it seriously in this thread." Patrick became the change he wanted to see by naming and shaming a garden center, tire store, and car wash;"
"By Twitter's own accounting, just a few hundred people saw Patrick's posts, and only a few dozen saw the replies. That Patrick is, and pardon the political science jargon here, "just some squeaker" both is and isn't salient. Whether Patrick was able to make trouble for the offending garden center or tire store, whose phone numbers he provided with that goal in mind, the more meaningful part is that he understood it as his civic obligation to try."
Vance Patrick, chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan's Oakland County, directed his online followers to local businesses that had not lowered flags to half-staff after President Donald Trump ordered flags lowered to honor Charlie Kirk. Trump issued the order "for all American flags" in a post on the Playskool version of Twitter. Patrick named and shamed a garden center, tire store, and car wash and posted pictures of other locations, some apparently taken through car windows. Twitter's metrics showed only a few hundred people saw his posts and only a few dozen saw replies. Critics called Patrick "just some squeaker," while others noted ambiguity between civic obligation and clout-seeking. Trumpism lacks coherent tenets and creates a permission structure that enables such public policing.
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