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This is fascinating. Tucker Carlson tries to provide Trump and Republicans a fallback position to stem the push towards holding Trump accountable. Thing is, Trump will never accept or admit he did anything wrong. dailycaller.com/2019/10/03/tuc…
The whole "Trump is an unusual President" argument rests on Trump at least occasionally attempting to act as a president, but he really doesn't. The attempts of his propagandists to steer him toward the (relative) light is the evidence.
Notice that they've included Trump's favorite conspiracy theory in an effort to curry favor, the conspiracy theory that has pushed Trump off the rails that Carlson almost certainly knows is false and yet has pushed for months anyway.
Why does the phrase, "Your broke him, you bought him" pop into my mind just now?
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This is an interesting communication strategy from the Speaker that I think I approve of. Diminishing Trump is not a bad strategy. Don't get me wrong, he's a menace, but painting him as the ranting uncle v. the boogey man could help with public opinion. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pelosi-tr…
Impeachment is obviously political, but Trump and the Republicans' strategy is to try to make it explicitly about politics rather than the underlying deeply disturbing issues. This moves it away from that and also depersonalizes it, another savvy strategy, IMO.
Trump is shrinking before our eyes as he gets more and more obsessed and Pelosi's message plays into that narrative. As a President, he's increasingly irrelevant in terms of the work Presidents are expected to do, except for the fact that he is President.
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This is an interesting and worthwhile essay from @rpondiscio examining and owning up to some of the consequences of the pursuit of a particular set of school reform policies. /thread fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…
@rpondiscio He's wondering how we get students to be "in" not just for school, but for the larger civic project that is the United States. It's a worthwhile question to wonder about and I think school reform has done a lot of damage on this front.
@rpondiscio I teach writing and the primary emotion students feel towards writing is alienation, almost total disengagement from writing as a tool for expression, thinking, and communication. This is a direct consequence of the school reform movement.
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A budget as an expression of values, illustrated.
When you look at a university's budget and see what they value, you pretty quickly see that in a lot of cases it isn't instruction, and it's definitely not laborers.
Not imagining any department would ever do it, but I've suggested that they cut all travel/research expenses for TT faculty, and give the money to adjuncts. "But we can't do that." Why not? It's always a choice, and the choice signals what's valued.
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