#Demagoguery

The desecration of the White House for Trump’s perverse political use is an abomination. The question of whether voters care about the Hatch Act is beside the point. It is
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After recently observing that Trump has had a “Cluster B” , Typhoid Mary-like effect on society, I had an interesting observation regarding Trump’s cult following….1/https://twitter.com/Nick_Carmody/status/1188071727412269057 ….and the apparent “infe
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I recently stumbled upon this panel on the topic of Critical Race Theory (what else?) hosted by The Manhattan Institute and was shocked by the lineup. Why the hell was
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Delighted by the results in Bolivia. Felicidades Luis Arce and the MAS I'm also highly amused by all the commentators on my feed who've never even set foot in this
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1/nA politician's sleight, cunning rhetoric to garner sympathy, studied mask of humbleness to disguise a huge ego and zero knowledge! This fellow has no clue about history but will not
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1. OK, I know we're in a 30-minute news cycle, but I want to hold on for a moment to my rage about GA Sen. Kelly Loeffler, and her insane
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The "intolerance" has metastasized to inhumanity.I recently touched on this topic in two podcasts where I spoke about animalistic behavior that, if engaged in by humans, would be considered sociopathic.Basically,
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A thread about this fantastic @DeathPanel_ episode on the “Great Barrington Declaration,” because this stuff is really f___ing important. https://www.patreon.com/posts/42895151 cc @PhilipRocco @jfeldman_epi /1 They write about Jay
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1. Political and social scientists have an interest in appearing aloof from the subjects of their research. So they, like their journalistic counterparts, created a vocabulary for talking about their
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I don’t recall Frankfurt making this point, but bullshit functions as a mechanism to destabilize context. When you are being precise in your rhetoric and paying appropriate attention to true/false
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Okay! Sorry for the delay, friends. This is @BilgeEbiri livetweeting THE MASK OF ZORRO from the Vulture account. I assure you I am very good at this. Is it just
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In last 24 hours, just a ton of immigration news. Not counting of course the pain and trauma felt by tens of millions of people each day. A few things
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the first rule of economics is that resources are scarce and there are never enough goods or services to meet demand.the first rule of politics is to ignore the first
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What has Brexit flagged to me?.... that there is a group of people with a phenomenally developed capability to talk and write. Who are looked upon by many as gurus.
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(Thread) The GOP wants a Leadership CultMindy asked me these questions about Trump’s Town Hall yesterdayHer questions assume that the GOP wants the same form of government we want.Her questions
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Do not appease the super-whites by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/do-not-appease-the-super-whites?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. I have read a lot over the last four years about the his
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