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12 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Author of the Mega-Viral Thread on MAGA Voters, Darryl Cooper (@martyrmade) , Explains His Thinking -- for our "Outside Voices" contributor section:

outsidevoices.substack.com/p/author-of-th…
Tucker Carlson devoted seven minutes of airtime to reading it. Donald Trump heaped praise on it. Cooper went from 7,000 followers to 70,000 in 4 days. Why did this Twitter analysis, explaining the animating perceptions of Trump voters, resonate so widely on the right?
"They could have managed the shock if it only involved the government. But the behavior of the press is what radicalized them. Trump supporters have more contempt for journalists than they have for any politician or government official, because they feel most betrayed by them."
When someone regards a group of people with unmitigated contempt and condescension, it is impossible to understand let alone explain their thinking.

Cooper doesn't agree with all the perceptions he describes but he is unclouded by patronizing scorn:

outsidevoices.substack.com/p/author-of-th…
For the few who haven't read Cooper's mega-viral 35-tweet thread on the current MAGA mindset, you can do so below. We're thrilled to have him elaborate on what led him to this analysis and to expand on it further:

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13 Jul
It's stunning how the networks who put Michael Avenatti on over and over and over and over and depicted him as the Nation's Conscience and even hyped him as a serious presidential contender have all but ignored his prison sentence and multiple other pending felony trials.
And as usual, the standard elite self-exoneration of "we-couldn't-have-known" is utter bullshit. Aside from the fact that the stench of Avenatti's sleazy fraud suffocated anyone within a mile radius, countless people pointed out at the time how exploitative and dishonest he was. ImageImage
This passage on the role corporate journalists have played in shaping the animating worldview of MAGA supporters -- the intense, often-justified seething contempt they harbor for journalists -- was one of the most important passages of @martyrmade's essay

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13 Jul
This @ClayTravis tweet is a pure expression of both neoconservatism and liberal interventionism: the US Govt much change the governments of other countries to "spread democracy & freedom."

What does this have to do with "MAGA" or America First? Seems like its exact opposite.
Also, it's intellectually worthless to demand that the US Government go change the governments of other countries without specifying what you want it to do. Does @ClayTravis want a US military invasion in Havana, a proxy war with Russia, what specifically should the US Govt do?
This is consistent with the "Make America Great Again" and America First ideology. Those who want the US to (further) intervene in Cuba are advocating its opposite:

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11 Jul
What's even worse about this is that the buyers of Hunter Biden's art are free to remain anonymous from the public, but there's nothing stopping them from telling Hunter -- or Joe or Biden officials -- that they bought his art for some insane sum, nor publicizing it themselves.
People are buying Hunter Biden's art for the same reason that Burisma was willing to pay him so much money for his nonexistent expertise in the energy industry.
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9 Jul
Just don't say anything that might offend the ADL or SPLC, or mainstream liberal groups that agitate for censorship, or the censorship agitators at NBC/CNN/NYT. Just conform to their pieties. Not hard.
If you want to stay on social media, just studiously read the NYT op-ed page, watch CNN, follow NBC's "disinformation reporters," and obey the ADL and SPLC, and then conduct yourself accordingly, never straying outside their orthodoxies. Is that really asking too much?
And -- I hope this goes without saying -- never question or deviate from the decrees of the WHO, the CDC or Dr. Fauci.

In those instances where they disagree with one another -- such as whether to wear masks if you're vaccinated -- just stay quiet until they reach consensus.
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9 Jul
Bolsonaro's escalating rhetoric about canceling the 2022 election is coinciding with polls showing Lula almost certain to defeat him. The latest today, from @folha, shows Lula with a 21-point lead. Lula would win in the run-off by 58%-31%.

www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2021/07/…
Even worse for Bolsonaro:

1) He has a chance to not even make the run-off. If there's only one "third way" candidate - @cirogomes - he could eliminate Bolsonaro in the first round.

2) The % saying there's no chance they'd vote for him is up to 59%, far higher than anyone else's
Seems extremely clear that Bolsonaro knows he's highly likely to lose. The question is whether the Armed Forces would support his anti-democratic plotting. That's unknown, but some recent statements and actions are raising valid concerns about it.
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The way liberal journalists just ignore what was, to me, one of the most repressive events of the Trump years -- Big Tech **censored** reporting on the Hunter Biden docs about Joe's business deals to help Dems -- is still stunning. 3 weeks before the election, they barred links.
Twitter literally prohibited all links to reports about the Biden docs, not just publicly but in DMs. FB announced -- through a life-long Dem operative -- it would algorithmically suppress the story pending a fact-check (which never came). It was brute censorship to elect Biden.
All of this was accomplished by an outright lie manufactured by the CIA: that the Biden family docs were "Russian disinformation." Media outlets, like the good little servants that they are, repeated this lie to justify Big Tech censorship and their own refusal to cover it.
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