#POPULISM

Darren J. Beattie 🌐

DarrenJBeattie

Hawley is fake and a lot of the dumb watered down upper-middle brow "industrial policy" nonsense is coming from a small group of masterminds trying to rebrand Rubio. Mark my

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Why did Trump lose? (A thread)1. Not enough votes: > 5 million vote gap just too big to be bridged by the pro-Republican skew from geography/EC map.Did v.well at mobilising

Simon Taylor

sytaylor

Bonus Food: Gamestop. Economic Populism and how Robinhood weaponized the Occupy Wall St movementhttps://sytaylor.substack.com/p/bonus-food-gamestop-economic-populism TL;DR A group of Redditors spotted that Gamestop was* Potentially underva

Matthew Aaron Richmond

mattyrichy

I know the obvious counterfactual is what would pandemic management have been like under Corbyn (prob couped by his own party in March 2020). But it's just as interesting to

MZS

mattzollerseitz

Among other things, the HBO Max discourse is proof that the general public hates filmmakers as much as they hate every other kind of artist. “I want my ‘content’ and

Stan Account

tristandross

distinctly remember growing up with a neeky interest in politics, all this constant handwringing from commentators about young people being apathetic, and what should be done about this, then 2015-2019

Greg Sargent

ThePlumLineGS

Good to see: By moving on reconciliation, Dems show they're learning. They're wise to McConnell's scam, in which he used filibuster to *withhold* cooperation. Going big on spending now could

Hawley/Romney 2024

2024Hawley

Since many people seem to believe I’m confused for simultaneously supporting both neoliberalism and paleoconservatism, I’ll use this thread to clarify my position. Liberalism (and neoliberalism to a certain extent)

Windsor Mann

WindsorMann

Christopher Hitchens died nine years ago today. Here are some of his quotations that apply to Trump:“He’s a fascist and he’s an ignorant peasant and a superstition monger.” [Scarborough Country,

Matt O'Brien

ObsoleteDogma

It's probably not too surprising, but it's still striking how much US & UK politics have mirrored each other the last 40 years: laissez-faire with Reagan & Thatcher, Third Way-ism

Lee Jones

DrLeeJones

This speech is long, but well worth a read if you're genuinely interested in understanding the contemporary Tory project. Quick thread.1/9https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1277017358788419585 In January, I described how Johnson'

Nicholas J. Fuentes

NickJFuentes

Notice that as the Left and Right are effectively fighting alongside eachother during this Gamestop thing, the Right is clamoring to unify with the Left and the Left is writing

Pasha Babayev

babayevsky

1/ The reason for Pashinyan's frequent usage of the word "genocide" is to trigger the Armenian nation's trauma through sensationalist rhetoric, which serves to effectively unite Armenians against "the enemy",

Lindsey Simmons

LynzforCongress

The single most informative text one can read to understand how Joshua Hawley uses populism as a vehicle for white nationalism is his book on Theodore Roosevelt. I encourage you

American Solidarity Party

AmSolidarity

A lot of discussion about the GOP as a working-class party of the future today. We will say this: it would be good for the country if this were actually

Conor Fitzgerald

fitzfromdublin

Current reading, for a glimpse at our future/ present Author seems to regard Xi as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao China’s social credit system, in which the hope

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