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Jane Coaston
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I think this is a worthwhile point: beyond the tweeting, the economic populism that was supposed to be the backbone of “Trumpism” hasn’t, uh, really happened. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
I wrote about this back in 2017. nationalreview.com/2017/04/donald…
What gets me is that the entire breakdown of fusionism among conservatives and libertarians is taking place under a president with a markedly low interest in economic populism. firstthings.com/web-exclusives…
It would be like if you spent a lot of time in the summer getting into how you were going to “pound the rock” and “challenge the line of attack” and your eventual yards per carry averaged out at 2.4 and yet you’re like “I said the whole time, we are a pass heavy team"
“We are a RUN-FIRST TEAM” :: four months pass :: “I have always said, we are emphasizing the pass"
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Jane Coaston
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Woodrow Wilson sucked, a continuing series pbs.org/wgbh/americane…
In 1901, Wilson, then a Princeton professor, wrote a piece for The Atlantic Monthly, in which he said this.
The full piece is here. Among many things, Woodrow Wilson needed an editor. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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Jane Coaston
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My colleague @zackbeauchamp attended the National Conservatism conference (I wasn’t permitted to do so) and heard Amy Wax speak. vox.com/2019/7/17/2069…
As Beauchamp notes, Wax cites John Derbyshire in her paper (who was fired from NRO for a bananas racist piece). But she also approvingly cites Jared Taylor.
Jared Taylor is a white nationalist, editor of the outlet American Renaissance and occasional spokesperson for the Council of Conservative Citizens, which described black people as a “retrograde species.” vox.com/2018/8/22/1776…
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Jane Coaston
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So, in other news, something I am working on is avoiding “nutpicking” — finding the most bananas example of a certain group and extrapolating that that is the group itself. So I’d like to preface the following by saying that this is not general of the conservative movement.
But today the Journal of American Greatness (a publication that is attempting to put meat on the bones of Trumpism, so to speak) published this “poem,” by someone using a pseudonym. It is entitled “Cuck Elegy."
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