#Populism

John Hayward

Doc_0

The Democrat Party is now completely incapable of arguing rationally for any of its policy goals. It's nothing but thuggish threats - riots in the streets, threats to destroy the

Mugwump

anonmugwump

I’m not sure I agree with this framing for several reasons: (1) “random people on Twitter” encompasses all manner of maniacs, the “upper normies” who initially downplayed it and is

Mother

YourMotherSaysU

The apparent level of sheer irrationality in voting for a party still offering a #Nodealbrexit can only really be accounted in terms of the structure of political attention. Garry #Kasparov

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Aelkus

I've been coming to wonder if the approach used by people to think about conspiracy theories in America at least is becoming increasingly untenable generally it tends to gate conspiracy

Henry Kupty

hkupty

I don't usually post politics, just reply politics, but I'll make an excuse to say a few words stuck in my chest for a while.Feel free to unfollow if you

Will Wilkinson 🌐

willwilkinson

This editorial is desperate, ridiculous, and just plain dishonest.https://twitter.com/WSJopinion/status/1222911701533761536 The House managers conceded no such thing. The managers endorsed GAO's finding that holding funds to Ukraine was illegal i

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is the worst kind of revisionist apologia from USA todaysweden's strategy DID workit worked wellgathering up the sour grapes of the "experts" who advocated swedish panic and fermenting it

Finchelstein

FinchelsteinF

Trump's populism means danger of fascism because 1) glorification of violence & enabling paramilitary groups to go after perceived enemies; 2)places racism & xenophobia at center of politics; 4)conflates leader,

Ross Douthat

DouthatNYT

Going to argue, mildly, with this @streeterryan piece for a moment:https://thedispatch.com/p/trumpism-is-more-about-culture-than I said mildly because I completely agree with him that Trumpism is "an anti-leftist, anti-elitist cultural

Brad Edwards

cbradedwards

Aight, I got some beef here: not w/@NatePyle79, but with the stunning number of comments/replies that are functionally gaslighting or blame-shifting from his point that pastors are earnestly putting everything

Demetri Kofinas

CoveringDelta

1/ We are entering a period in world history where long-standing territorial disputes—so-called “frozen conflicts” mediated for years by the credible force of American intervention—are igniting in violence.https://twitter.com/AP/sta

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twlldun

Several opinions against the twitter grain: That Reuters article didn’t prove your mad conspiracy. It shows they followed the scientific advice. It shows there were limits to the scientific advice.

Miles Kahn

mileskahn

If you can answer all these questions, you can let kids back in school:If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their

James Treakle 🎬

JamesTreakle

1. Voting is a moral choice (which is apparently a controversial statement now.)2. Persuading voters requires careful rhetoric.The reason the second item is so important is because of the first.

Anonymous poster

handle_anonymus

If college degrees lose value, biggest losers would be intelligent students from not well-off background or lacking connections. Unpaid internships would become norm, with a pie-in-sky promise of earnings later,

David Cvach

david_cvach

A few Sunday morning thoughts on the impact of #COVID19 on our freedoms - a hotly debated issue in Sweden and in France (and elsewhere). Let's unpack. 1/13 1. Freedom