As @marceelias notes, it also includes this absolute gem:
“Whether the federalization of election rules that Democrats were pushing in their voting bills would have made the system somewhat better or somewhat worse…”
What a bizarre piece of reactionary centrist propaganda.
“Whether the federalization of election rules that Democrats were pushing in their voting bills would have made the system somewhat better or somewhat worse…”
What a bizarre piece of reactionary centrist propaganda.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1487462685407166466
I just wrote at length about why I find the “anti-alarmism” genre so unconvincing - but I was focusing on a liberal version that is based on a misunderstanding of the history of democracy in America. This is something else entirely: A reactionary anti-alarmist smoke grenade.
https://twitter.com/tzimmer_history/status/1486705111380471813
Yes, the author decries the “wounds inflicted on American democracy by Donald Trump and the Republican Party” - but that’s standard operating procedure for reactionary centrists and “moderate” conservatives alike: Declare Trumpism and multiracial democracy equally illegitimate.
https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1487432974559817733
The piece deploys the established tropes of “alarmism” and “both sides-ism” in an attempt to provide cover for the Republican project of entrenching white conservative dominance and de-legitimize the efforts to counter the assault on the political system with federal legislation.
I really want to know what the decision-making process at @TheAtlantic was like:
Someone says: “Wehner wants to write a bizarrely disingenuous piece for us, something clearly meant to obscure what’s actually going on.”
And whoever was in charge said: “Yes! Let’s go ahead!”
Someone says: “Wehner wants to write a bizarrely disingenuous piece for us, something clearly meant to obscure what’s actually going on.”
And whoever was in charge said: “Yes! Let’s go ahead!”
I greatly admire many people who write for @TheAtlantic; publishing this undermines their great work. On the institutional level, it reveals a degree of willful complicity in the anti-democratic assault on the political system that is actively hurting American democracy.
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