Ok, #twitterstorians, who’s on D‘Souza watch today? It’s past my bedtime.
What‘s fascinating about the NBC kerfuffle and the taking Trump out of context issue: this couldn’t have happened if Trump could make a coherent argument beyond three words, like, ever, and if he wasn’t such an obvious supporter of white nationalism.
There’s an argument to be made here that the disattention economy of decontextualized catchphrases that made Trump even possible is now coming back to to bite him.

But this is likely to shore up the support of the faithful in the echo chamber, so it’s a win for him in the end.
Anyway, looks like @DavidAstinWalsh is up with a thread on the nonexistent cover-up of Democrats being culpable for slavery:

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Mar 11, 2021
What always gets me about the "bipartisanship is what's needed" argument in the U.S. is that both Republicans and Democrats are such broad coalitions that in other governing systems they'd be three to five parties each.
"Bipartisan" usually means getting a few more centrist votes or not. When it doesn't happen that usually has little to do with the popular appeal of any specific legislation (like a *very* popular relief bill), and everything to do with the drawing of partisan battle lines.
As @NormOrnstein and Thomas E. Mann point out in this piece on myths about bipartisanship, "Republicans are one of the most extreme (even radical) conservative parties in the democratic world […] while Democrats look like a traditional center-left party."
washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-m…
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Jan 18, 2021
Many others are already parsing the report of the 1776 Commission. This much here: It's a propagandist hack job.

What interested me were the people involved with it.

(They're pretty much who you would expect them to be.) Larry P. Arnn, Chair Carol Swain, Vice Chair  Matthew Spaldi
Larry P. Arnn, Chair: Ph.D. in Government. Not a historian.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_P._… In 2013, Arnn was criticized for his remarks about ethnic mi
Carol M. Swain, Vice Chair. Ph.D. in Political Science. Not a historian.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_M._… Her methodology was criticized by political scientist Marc Q
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Jan 17, 2021
Wie @HeikoMaas das da formuliert ist es eine ganz schlechte Idee.

1: Grundrechte gelten für alle. Sie können aus triftigen Gründen entweder individuell oder allgemein eingeschränkt werden.

"Grundrechte zurück nach Bringschuld Impfung" ist höchst problematisch v.a. wenn:
2: erst einmal gar nicht alle geimpft werden können.

Wenn geimpft-Status plötzlich doppelt freieres Leben (keine Angst mehr um die Krankheit plus Restaurantbesuche etc.) für einige aber nicht alle bedeutet ist das eine perfide gesellschaftliche Zweiteilung.
Für ggf. Monate, in denen es immer schwerer wird zu erklären warum der Nachbar grade aus der Kneipe kommt an der ich nur vorbeilaufen darf obwohl ich auch impfbereit bin.

Das strengt die für eine Mammutaufgabe wie die Pandemiebekämpfung nötige Solidarität über die Maßen an.
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Jan 7, 2021
It will matter greatly what the news media calls the events of January 6 going forward.

Do we have a coup? A putsch? An insurrection? The storming of the Capitol? Trumpist terrorism? Will there be a pithy shorthand, and if so, will it be reasonably accurate and descriptive?
As a historian, what watching the attack unfold on television brought home to me is once again something basic but often forgotten in the mythologizations of public remembrance:

The people who did this are extremely normal. Despite their wild conspiracies.
There are millions like them. Millions who approve, millions who don't approve but don't not approve enough to care, millions who see this assault on democracy and order as something noble.

They will not go away.

If there is no reckoning, this will get worse.
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Jan 6, 2021
McConnell playing the good democrat is whiplash-inducing.
Ah there's the Democrat-blaming and bothsidesing. Was worried for a minute he might forget to go there.
Schumer's kicking off shining city on a hill time.
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Dec 26, 2020
Weird reason. Tweet from Prager U with in...
And also at least questionable.
mentalfloss.com/article/526291…
H/t to @manwithoutatan for pointing out the existence of this execrable piece of Confederate apologia plus random Lee "facts" of questionable truth value to me.
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