Thread by @WalidPhares

Excellent @TIME piece to read about the mighty, impeccable & integrated political machine - I've cited in #TheChoice back in September- that defeated the #Trump campaign during fall 2020.

#Republicans follow ideals, their opponents organize. However..

time.com/5936036/secret…

The Time article is perhaps accurate on names, facts & very educative. But in the larger picture, it serves as a "mega decoy" to hide the wider more & deeper tale behind it. It's meat thrown to satisfy readers' hunger, filled with details, while the real dragon escape attention.

The writer(s) of the @TIME piece lionized the "actors" of the opposition & imputed all "victories" to their zeal to defeat the "imagined" hysterical "Trump threat." The actions by the players cited are apparently accurate, but the uber players & real timeframes were "redacted."👥

I don't focus much on domestic politics, but any political scientist can figure out that the article's goal is to aggrandize the "organizational factor" in the electoral victory to a point where no more "questions" are asked about the "other cataclysmic" factors. Easy analysis.

Not realistic in the @TIME article that the "top deciders" in a national campaign were labor advisors, business people & activists. These are urban fairy tales. For the whole world knows who the deciders were on both sides of the election cycle. It's a matter of public record.

Not realistic, perhaps not accurate, to claim that the campaign to "protect elections" started in winter 2020. Not difficult to reconstruct events historically & conclude that strategically it started in winter 2017.

2020 was obviously targeted in 2017. No question about it.

The bottom line of the @TIME article is to erase the bigger facts by drowning the readers and the national debate with an Ocean of lilliputian blips. And in a culture worshipping shiny details, it worked. Few captured what the #organizerinchief(s) were able to pull...