#Demagoguery

Greg Sargent

ThePlumLineGS

The evidence is extensive and it is damning. Many of those who preplanned Jan. 6th did so because they correctly understood that Trump had told them to do exactly that:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/10/david-schoen-hannity-

Adam Weinstein

AdamWeinstein

No person -- no politician, pundit, podcaster -- who surveys the events of the past days, weeks, years, and reacts by adopting the mantle of victimhood by lamenting the loss

Will Stancil

whstancil

"When Republicans are in charge, it's important to understand why they're governing like extreme partisans. When Democrats are in charge, it's important for them to govern with conservatives in mind."https://twitter.co

Ashton Pittman

ashtonpittman

THREAD: For the past few days, there's been a lot of talk (& reporting by me) about Republicans in Mississippi talking like the Dixiecrats who once ran MS (Rep. Price

Jennifer Mercieca

jenmercieca

Edward Bernays, 1936 speech on propaganda:democracy, as a system of government & way of life, requires propaganda to sustain itself. People have to be reminded of what democracy matters, or

Colin Smith 💙

Colin_TBTAMC

It’s a wretched business, that comics criticism is so often regarded as, at best, a sad & superfluous indulgence useful only for pull quotes & adoring applause from the peanut

Hey Aren't You That Beta

Best_Beta4lyfe

It's gonna be a new type of exhausting to deal with the Right in the United States government now.The GOP flash-forged itself in the shape of Trump but now that

Edward Henry QC

edwardhenry1

In the 1790s an authoritarian Government led by Pitt the Younger brought a series of treason trials against radicals who were accused of ‘Jacobinism’. Mild mannered individuals faced a grisly

Gareth van Onselen

GvanOnselen

Thread. This is revealing. It tells you two things: 1. The much revered minister is perfectly capable of Zuma/Malema-like racial demagoguery when under pressure. And 2. He is under serious

Rush Doshi

RushDoshi

Excited to share a new piece with Kurt Campbell in @ForeignAffairs!The US is entering its 5th wave of declinist handwringing in the last century, but fatalism is premature. The China

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

I keep being asked why I don’t go into politics. There are a few reasons:1. I'd be rubbish at it.2. I mean really rubbish. 3. I'd prefer to see women,

Kooky/کوکي ⚒️ 🔻

shawarmacommie

Ok, I may have lied. I am going to get political for a second. The narrative that is pushed by the West, that Stalin and Hitler's governments were comparable in

Ashton Pittman

ashtonpittman

You'll probably fail if you simply fight for the Democratic Party in the South. But if you fight for democracy in the South, which is what @staceyabrams did, you'll change

Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych

Nick_Carmody

…the Us-vs.-Them dynamic created by Christian identity politics…..becomes exacerbated by an ever-increasing level of dysfunctional competitiveness….that is driven by American individualism……which is fueled by “American Exception

Heather Chaplin

heatherchaplin

Responding to @TomRosenstiel 's thread about @WesleyLowery's piece in @nytimes on journalistic objectivity. https://twitter.com/irwin/status/1275785628018528256?s=20 First of all, this thread is catnip to me, so thank you, Tom. A co

Stephen Barlow

SteB777

1) Regardless of the outcome of the US elections, we need to have a hard deep think about what democracy means. We have developed a form of democracy, which allows

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