#Demagoguery

🌵🌊 Trump Killed the Party of Lincoln 🌊🌵

SuaveMoose

I understand the reasons for Civil War in 1860. We really did have two completely different cultures and economies, one of which was completely immoral, of course. What I see

Jennifer Mercieca

jenmercieca

Wow. Read @michaelkruse's great/terrifying 45 Self-Evident Truths About Donald Trump: https://politi.co/31SEu7j via @politico Everyone read this. It distills Trump's essential qualities into 45 traits. Once you read it you'

Rush Doshi

RushDoshi

5. Decline is a ChoiceDecline is thus a choice, not a condition. The main path to decline runs through our polarized political system - particularly if divided government produces gridlock.And

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WritesMore

My grandad wore a tacky toupee and EVERYONE knew. When I spent the night with my grandparents (age 9), his hair fitter came for an appointment.After, my grandmother whispered to

Jennifer Mercieca

jenmercieca

Just realized while doing an interview that Trump's silence is strategic and allows his defense to claim that he's no longer a clear & president danger to the republic. It

Heather Chaplin

heatherchaplin

3/ To Wesley’s anecdote about being a cub reporter, I did a workshop with a mid-sized newsroom a couple years back on how they covered “crime.” After they realized that

H.R. McMaster

LTGHRMcMaster

The reasons for yesterday’s criminal assault on our Congress and election process are many. But foremost among them is the sad reality that President Trump and other officials have repeatedly

Ellen Carmichael

ellencarmichael

Ok so I guess getting their shots on TV in the past week or two totally undermines a coordinated effort by the highest levels of Democratic politicians and some in

SonaliRanade

sonaliranade

Cut back to @ShekharGupta’s point about our love of a feel good guru.Deep down we are a defeated, broken people in terms of our Sacred Geography, vastly diminished from what

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BreeNewsome

Once again, the attack on the Capitol was not “anarchy”, it was FASCISM. Anarchy is a philosophical opposition to authority. The people who stormed the Capitol replaced the US flag

Wendell Pierce

WendellPierce

The President of the United States lies to undermine the integrity of our democracy. He incited violence. Welcome to our reality as African Americans. Poll tax, literacy test, kidnapping, and

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. With the impeachment trial resuming, it's worth reflecting on the huge differences between the House managers (professional, focused, convincing) and Trump's lawyers (meandering, incoherent & threatening). But also that

Jesse Brenneman

Jesse_Brenneman

To be a little more thoughtful on my previous point: when a politician says they don't like "politics" people tend to understand they mean pettiness, insincerity, power playing, etc, etc.

Suhag A. Shukla

SuhagAShukla

Two weeks apart in two democracies. Two monuments to democracy breached. Two capital city’s police attacked. This is what fake news, conspiracy theories and religious radicalization wrought.This is hard for

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zei_squirrel

he's been very successful at masking it, but obama really is the archetypal demagogue the ancients warned about, who employ populist rhetoric and their personal charisma to channel legitimate frustrations

SonaliRanade

sonaliranade

“ .. if a demagogue has the skill and the cheek to build a dominant majority’s latent insecurities into a persecution complex, he can build an impregnable base. See, for

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