#Populism

Lawrence Glickman

LarryGlickman

As with Douthat's column the other day, David Brooks massively overstates small differences among Republicans and the degree to which some are "breaking free from old orthodoxies." /1https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/opinion/

Marc-André Argentino

_MAArgentino

1/ I hate doing this because I'm not into twitter spats but let's go because comments like this are problematic. When making comments about QAnon at least try and read

Chris Schweizer

schweizercomics

Folks from outside Kentucky who think that McGrath is the best bet to beat McConnell: You're wrong, and it's because you don't understand Kentucky. 1/ Kentucky has more registered democrats

Howard Anglin

howardanglin

I’m sure this will be popular, but what a mess.In normal times if Govt is going to subsidize business, I understand such restrictions (though they’re still probably counterproductive). But airlines

Eddie Du

Edourdoo

The Mayor of Antwerp suffered an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction after an interviewer noticed he wasn't wearing any pants. Bart de Wever, the mayor of the second biggest city in Belgium, wore

Tim O'Connor

timoconnorbl

It is relevant to note in discussions about QAnon, conspiracy theorists and those invading state institutions that there is an undercurrent of Freeman lunacy that lawyers have been dealing with

Bill Hogseth

billhogseth

THREAD: The most common rebuttal to my Politico article has been “Yes but what have R’s done for rural America?!?!" and "Why do you blame it all on D's?!?" Here

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

Going to start my day with a thread but then I'll need to go and work so I probably won't catch most of the replies. When I used to focus

Ed Pomfret

EdPomfret

What's driving the Inequality crisis? There's a variety of intersecting issues but here in this thread are five key systems that cause this crisis, we'll focus on one a day

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) Bannon, MAGA, and all that GOP Lawbreaking The latest: https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/1296509741749776384Spoiler: All that GOP lawbreaking makes sense from the viewpoint of reactionist politics: They want to go back to t

Andrew Ó Baoill🌹

aobaoill

The coup attempt in the US may be ‘over there’ but we in Ireland have lessons to learn, particularly about our approach to far-right figures and the politics of hate.@galwayad

Matt Collins

Mattophobia

What’s amazing about Johnson is that even after a year in which he has absolutely failed in every single metric, he still manages to be incredibly popular for a UK

Lindsey Simmons

LynzforCongress

For his efforts, with fewer than 8 months on the job, Josh Hawley earned the support from the Koch Family who pledged $10M to his eventual Senate run (even prior

Wytt

fastkidpunk

1) For all the MF’ers out there who keep saying the NAZIS were socialists, here’s a response from the experts at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The NAZIS were fascists.

Sticky Shoe

shoe_sticky

The reason a reactionary, cyclical analysis of politics is wrong isn't because "muh fascism" or "muh morals", it's because it doesn't account for the fundamental systemic changes wrought by the

zettira

tenderloeyn

things i learn after watch the social dilemma a thread We have changed from the information era to the disinformation era.The tools that have been created are now beginning to

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