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"Democrats outperformed the GOP by 8 points this last election, making their victory one of the most sweeping in the nation's history. To better understand what happened, we asked patrons at a Youngstown diner why they decided to stay home and not vote."
"'Hillbilly Elegy' Elegy: What does the 2018 election mean for the this-is-how-you-got-Trump publishing industry?"
CHUCK TODD: Charles, what is it that people don't get about Fishtown?
CHARLES MURRAY: The people of Fishtown are sick and tired of losing. That's what made the Democratic Party's decision to try to win the election so galling.
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I’d reframe this. One rarely asked, but quite legitimate, question is this: What do we owe to our allies? If structurally oppressed people are going to say that their allies have an obligation to defer to them (politically, epistemically, etc.), what is owed to them in return?
It’s a big thing, asking someone to entrust their energy and political judgment to you! I think Jade Schaff (Oberlin) wrote something about this, but can’t find it now. Anyway, it’s a legitimate issue that will not/should not go away.
To be clear: I don’t mean “what is owed” in the “what do we get in return?” sense. Rather, what obligation of care, of consideration, of caution does such a relationship create for the allied-with party?
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This doesn't mention me directly, but it's obviously directed at me. And since it reflects the objections that many people had to my thread, it merits a response.
Objection #1: What about Trump/Orban/Brexit/Bolsonaro?

What about them? Yascha knows better than anyone that the illiberal/authoritarian turn in consolidated democracies long precedes contemporary SJW activism. See Brownlee 2002, Wright 2008, Levitsky and Murillo 2013.
As for populism in Europe and the United States, that too predates any kind of social justice activism. In fact, its rise is probably due much more to neoliberal failures (e.g. austerity) than left-liberal ones.

books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr…
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The SJWs Are Winning and You're All Just Going to Have to Deal With It: A thread.
Reading this @JohnHMcWhorter piece is an exercise in vertigo. The central claim is that "third wave anti-racism" (i.e. the broad nexus of PC, social justice, and ID politics) is doomed to failure. That the aims are good, but strategically it's a dead end.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
This is a common view among centrist liberals and libertarians: "Yes, racism and sexism are serious problems and must be addressed, but the SJW Left is going about it all wrong. In fact, its tactics are actually making these problems worse, not better."
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sweet jesus this is going to be a thing for the next decade or two, isnt it? "this band of people nobody on the right listens to points to a future, sane gop that nobody on the right really wants as the movement just gets more and more insane"
march 2032: "ritual blood sacrifice has been a part of the gop platform since the last election, but a small band of iconoclasts sees a future gop that is more sane, more mainstream"
may 2064: "this ragtag band of young conservatives is pointing to a new way forward for the right. away from the bloodshed of the kennensburg uprising and the laramie pie incident of '59, and towards a sane, mainstream republican party"
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Media Bias? What Media Bias? pjmedia.com/election/media… #Election via @pjmedia_com
If you subscribe, to the digital edition of the New York Times, you'll soon notice that just about every headline or subhed will contain some reference to President Trump.
It almost doesn't matter what the ostensible subject of the article is; the hed must include some aside about "the age of Trump," even if the story is about golf or gardening. Because, you see, everything is political today.
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#GOP #RUSSIA #TRUMP #MCCONNELL #GRAHAM #TREASON
1.Len Blavatnik owns Al-Altep Holdings and Access Industries, and has contributed vast amounts of money to the GOP and Senate Leadership Fund and Trump, inclusive of 1 Million to the Inauguration of Trump.

#GOP #RUSSIA #TRUMP #MCCONNELL #GRAHAM #TREASON

2.Blavatnik co owns RUSAL with #Deripaska and #Vekselberg, together they own 69 % of the company.
RUSAL is the second largest Aluminum Company in the world.

#GOP #RUSSIA #TRUMP #MCCONNELL #GRAHAM #TREASON
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In September 2016, @KellyannePolls told Trump he couldn't get elected if he kept claiming @POTUS44 was born in Kenya--as he had 67x on Twitter over 6yrs. So Trump gave a press conference saying he believed Obama was born in the US, gave no explanation, took no questions.

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Trump has since walked that back.

Remember at the Inaugural luncheon where he paid tribute to @HillaryClinton and all she has done for America and asked those in attendance to applaud her?

Trump soon walked that back as well & has directed his DOJ to investigate her again.
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Everyone knows Trump lies, that he has always lied and that he believes his own lies.

Trump lied repeatedly at the #HelsinkiSummit presser. He also told his truth--that Russia didn't attack our 2016 election.There is videotape of the live broadcast which the whole world saw.
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Signs that #Election2016 was rigged (judge for yourselves)
1.There are plenty of examples were the #UnitedStates has been involved in trying to rig or likely has been a part of rigging foreign elections.
2.1948 election in# Italy, #USA agencies "threw everything, into helping the Christian Democrats.

1950s, the #CIA allegedly helped the West German Christian Democrats, led by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, to come to power.
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I stayed off Twitter for 24hrs to try &reclaim my personal time &prioritize writing, finishing this next book,since my health is so dire.
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But also,Saturday I was utterly disgusted by the overt racism of white women claiming to be Dems/progs/left in my mentions.It was awful.
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#Cancer makes you both more patient & less so. I never curse or name-call on here, but I don't sit back & watch WOC being shafted by WW.
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