#POPULISM

Jeff Sharlet

JeffSharlet

Thinking about Peter Turchin's argument in @TheAtlantic that the memory of collective action is what makes democracy possible. If we grant this premise, what does it say for our moment,

Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛

hamandcheese

The populist energy that gave us Trump could've been channeled into big reforms, but congressional Republicans would sooner indulge crack-pot conspiracy theories.I agree @ThePlumLineGS—Ceding economic populism to Dems is a

Marla in blue GA! 😷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈☮️🌊

MarlaCaldwell

THREAD: The Electoral College and its effect on elections for POTUS and VPOTUSTLDR; We do NOT need a Constitutional amendment to ensure popular vote decides presidential elections.Follow along and RT

RiShawn Biddle

dropoutnation

Bruenig is a White populist, not a socialist or even a Marxist, whose views are based in conservative interpretations of Catholic thought. So she's going to be less-troubled by any

Winter Oak

WinterOakPress

1/7This is totally shocking.The UK Labour Party is baying for "emergency legislation to 'stamp out' dangerous anti-vax misinformation ahead of the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine".https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol

Dr. Sol Parkens

DrSolParkens

There's really nothing about yesterday that was "unprecedented" "anti-American" or "an assault on our democracy." Let me explain. Last night Ben Sasse had some limited insight in his impulse to

Adam Cochran

AdamScochran

1/18First off, great thread.Second, I'm going to say something contrarian that I think will likely annoy maxis on both sides.Ethereum & Solana are not separate competitive L1s.They do no have

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Lyme Disease might be actually a chronic infection, not just an autoimmune response, says new book “Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Get Better Again,”

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

The Cummings/@BorisJohnson revolution continues. But when you seek to actively break down the civil service (and media, judiciary) you need to be very clear how and why you are trying

Matthew Boedy

MatthewBoedy

Hey kids (and people who who use “kiddo), let me tell you an American “success story” that ends with this amazing tweet below: In 2012 Charlie Kirk starts Turning Point

David Algonquin

surplustakes

This Finkelstein article gets at a kind of broke/woke/bespoke thing which I think is very important to our political culture but which I can't express pithily (at least not yet).So

Anarcho State

St_Ans

Reminder:https://twitter.com/St_Ans/status/1100547321803300864 I’m not the first to say ithttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-29040793 The ONE Group described corruption as a Trillion dollar industryThat’s bigger annually than the illicit dr

Michael R. Strain

MichaelRStrain

THREAD. President Donald Trump lost his bid to win re-election, and when he leaves the White House most of the distinctly Trumpian elements of his approach to economic policy will

Southern Anti-Racist | Abolition Now

antiracistsouth

The next 5-10 years will be a critical time in right wing politics in the U.S. (and bc of their outsized electoral influence, on ALL our lives). Here’s how I

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s13GES

Interesting exchanges underneath this Tweet. For what it's worth, the current success of AfD in East Germany and arguably right wing populism in USA and UK is a result of

tmi3rd

tmi3rd

@jimgeraghty has thoughts, and there's a significant chunk with which I agree. However, here's where I deviate from it, a thread...1/The Trump Era Ends in Disaster in Georgiahttps://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-trump-

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