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1/101: Trumpist pres hopeful @HawleyMO has nowhere made more clear his intention to expand his portfolio to run for president, starting next year, than by a drumbeat of 83 Tweets, 1/19-2/26, on a mythical new cold war w/ China. #HawleyMOsChinaTweets #HawleysMoralPanic Thread 1/3
2/101: It began 16 days into his tenure as the junior Senator from MO.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13BsztWr8hTKtISZw9segMKKudA3Ygye3dMNCAphY5PE/edit?usp=sharing
#HawleyMOsChinaTweets #HawleysMoralPanic
3/101: @HawleyMO, as self-appointed moral entrepeneur, uses classic techniques of exaggeration, distortion, and symbolization (by a few negative fact-based markers), to tout a moral panic that the Chinese are invading U.S. homes.
#HawleyMOsChinaTweets #HawleysMoralPanic
4/101: @HawleyMO takes the initiative as moral entrepeneur, as scholars call them, to create a moral panic accusing the Chinese of imperialism and of invading American homes with a conflation of surveillance, hacking, germs and Christian persecution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_entrepreneur
Eighty-five and counting.
Screenshots here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13BsztWr8hTKtISZw9segMKKudA3Ygye3dMNCAphY5PE/edit?usp=sharing
Screenshots here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13BsztWr8hTKtISZw9segMKKudA3Ygye3dMNCAphY5PE/edit?usp=sharing
Find Thread 2/2 of @HawleyMOsChinaTweets #HawleysMoralPanic here. https://twitter.com/purejuice6/status/1232716276797263874?s=20
