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Opinion Editor @Newsweek. Author: "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy" & "Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women"
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Jan 16 4 tweets 2 min read
I am so thrilled to share that you can now pre-order my new book, "Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women," which comes out on April 2. I cannot wait for you to meet the incredible Americans who shared their stories with me.
amazon.com/Second-Class-B… I am so unbelievably grateful to @rogerkimball and the whole team @EncounterBooks for continuing to believe in me and my work. And I am so deeply humbled by the trust that was given to me by the working-class men and women featured in the book.
Dec 20, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
The problem with elite universities goes so much deeper than denying Jewish and white students safetyism. The Ivies represent the elite's belief that they should have absolute rule over the masses, who they have just endless contempt for. And that's how Trump was banned in CO: Elite universities aren't institutions of learning but sites for reproducing status, elite belonging. These people truly believe they deserve to rule over average folks. Hence the Orwellian "We must protect the people from voting for their chosen candidate—to defend democracy!"
Dec 12, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
It's actually bad to have the leadership of higher education be subject to the whims of a billionaire—even a billionaire you agree with. It is no defense of the rotting American university system to believe that this is not the way you fix it. Those billionaires got us here! The university system is deeply corrupt. It's not really antisemitism we're seeing but anti-Americanism. It's a big mistake for Jews to insist that "No, we belong with the oppressed!" We belong with those fighting for this great nation—with all the others hated by the woke elite.
Oct 18, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Nearly every legacy media outlet in the country eagerly swallowed a blood libel peddled by baby mutilating butchers just weeks after they committed a massacre because it allowed these "journalists" to recast Jews as the perpetrators instead of the victims. Just let that sink in. Why was our journalist caste desperate to believe the lies of mass murderers, rapists, baby mutilators, and child torturers? Most US journalists studied at elite universities where wokeness—less power=more virtue—is the reigning paradigm, then brought it to the newsroom with them
Sep 8, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
It's much harder to call people racists for opposing an influx of millions of migrants when you are also trying to get rid of them, so the Biden admin came up with a genius solution for his fellow Dems: force his political opponents to keep the migrants. Shockingly cynical stuff. Nothing puts the lie to the hypocrisy of progressive preening quite like the topic of immigration. "Immigrants are welcome to our sanctuary city" right until they actually show up, it seems. So much of progressive politics is misunderstanding economic privilege for noble virtue.
Aug 24, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
First they shipped the jobs overseas, then they opened the border to mass immigration, now they sue companies that try to hire Americans. They have dropped all pretenses and are now literally suing companies for the crime of prioritizing American workers. Just let that sink in. The mission creep of the civil rights movement to cover people who aren't citizens is how elites wage class warfare, pimping out the valor of the civil rights struggle that sought equality for all Americans to import cheap labor and bolster their economic and political privilege.
Mar 20, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
The definition of woke: The reracialization of American life that suggests that people who were historically oppressed are today victims. It's imposing a power differential onto a physical attribute—race, gender, sexuality—then suggesting it's fixed in stone and must be reversed. Are we guilty of culturally appropriating a word that used to refer to state sponsored violence against Blacks? Yes. But sociologists needed a word to describe the shift in 2015 when white progressives got more extreme in how they spoke about race than Blacks and Hispanics.
Dec 16, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Pretending that sharing public information is the same as doxxing is exactly the kind of rebranding, doublethink, and safetyism to protect private interests and dismiss valid criticism that is the Left's bread and butter. It's absolutely wild to see the Right fall for this. What's the opposite of a red pill?
Nov 3, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
Too bad Keaira Bennefield wasn't rich, white & married to Dem royalty or her assailant might have been held w/out bail for trying to kill her like David DePape was. Instead her ex was immediately freed to go kill her. My latest on this sickening hypocrisy:
mol.im/a/11387471 Democrats have an opportunity after the horrific attack on Paul Pelosi for some soul searching, having exercised that muscle one uses to feel for the victims of horrific acts of violence—long-atrophied on the Left. Let's hope they use it for their voters.
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Jul 7, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
My God, just when you think they can't go lower: A bodega owner who defended himself from an ex-con is in Rikers on $250K bail. It's not enough to let career criminals loose—if you don't submit to their attacks, YOU will go to jail. The absolute depravity.
nypost.com/2022/07/06/nyc… "Get caught with an illegal gun, get released without bail. Shove an elderly person to the ground, attack someone because they are Asian, a slap on the wrist. But defend yourself and your business from a man who attacks you, and Bragg sends you to Rikers."
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May 1, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
The New York Times spent thousands and thousands of words and dollars to uncover the truth about Tucker Carlson: that he uses his platform to talk about the class divide and immigration depressing working class wages, views any Democrat would have proudly endorsed 15 years ago. But if you're part of the ruling class like the NYT, you don't want anyone exposing the vast chasm separating you from the people you pretend to represent. So having uncovered that Tucker talks endlessly about the class divide, they color caring about inequality as "racism."
Apr 27, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
Left & Right wing journos squabbling over Elon Musk buying Twitter like it's a fight about free speech. It's not. It's about the control the Chinese government will now have over American political discourse through a compliant stooge who somehow convinced people he's a renegade. I am very against the silencing and deplatforming of conservatives on Twitter. It's anti-democratic as we saw with the Hunter laptop story. But we need to have that fight for our democracy and for free speech. Instead someone who tweeted "China rocks!" now owns the platform.
Apr 21, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
I wrote about why the Washington Post's exposé of @libsoftiktok hid what's in the videos @libsoftiktok aggregates. It's part of a larger trend of conflating controversial trans debates with gay rights writ large, over which Americans are no longer divided.
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/… @libsoftiktok "A tiny elite that benefits politically and economically from portraying its opponents as bigots is using every tool at its disposal to obfuscate the vast distance between their views and the majority of middle- and working-class Americans."
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Apr 14, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Musk's free speech absolutism is a sham. He's fired people for trying to unionize, for disagreeing with him and for reporting harassment. And he's been a huge cheerleader for China. Stop thinking this manchild desperate to be popular is going to save you.
spiked-online.com/2022/04/06/elo… Both sides have this totally wrong. Left-wing journalists melting down over Twitter potentially censoring conservatives less are obviously just a punch line. But the Right ecstatic at the takeover of a billionaire cheerleader for the Chinese Communist Party are not much better.
Mar 16, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
"A 15-point peace plan, which Ukrainian & Russian negotiators discussed for the first time on Monday, would involve Kyiv renouncing ambitions to join NATO and promising not to host foreign military bases or weaponry in exchange for protection from allies."
ft.com/content/7b341e… "Putin said on Tuesday that Russia would 'partially pull back troops' near Ukraine and was seeking a 'diplomatic path' to resolving a standoff with the West. Biden welcomed further negotiations but warned that a Russian invasion remains a possibility."
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Feb 20, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
"Civil liberties are apparently something only people with money deserve. If you’re working class, the government reserves the right to seize your bank account. Big Tech reserves the right to take your donations. You can be jailed for 'abetting mischief'."
spiked-online.com/2022/02/18/the… "The left is now on the side of power. Liberal media are on the side of the government and they take political dissent personally. And what leftist elites are doing with their power is setting a new standard for who deserves basic civil rights." My latest:
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Feb 12, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
A president who billed himself as a union man demanded another country use military force to squash a labor strike and has a U.S. department founded to combat terrorism tracking a potential strike here in the U.S. I wrote about how we got here @DailyMail:
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… @DailyMail What we're seeing in the Freedom Convoy is nothing short of a working class organizing politically without the help of either political party. And this presents a real threat to the Democrats because it exposes the truth about who their base really is.
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Feb 10, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
After decades of being abandoned by the Left, workers across the world organized the most effective working class protest in recent memory demanding the right to work on their own terms. The response from liberal elites like this Harvard prof/CNN contributor? "Slash their tires." For elites who work in knowledge industry jobs at Harvard and CNN, the economy is about trade. For working class people like the protesting truckers, it's about jobs and the right to work. That gap explains a lot about why the Left abandoned the working class.
Jan 30, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Elite liberal media types want Joe Rogan banned for the same reason they call anti-mandate truckers fascists—both speak for millions of working class people who were abandoned when liberals got rich and woke. Rather than confront this, they silence or smear anyone who exposes it. Liberal elites believe they should be able to tell the hoi poloi what to think, so they imagine the people they envy—like Rogan with his 11 million listeners—have that influence. The truth is the opposite: Rogan has that audience because he mirrors his listeners' skepticism.
Jan 21, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
The elites don't even bother hiding their contempt for "the majority of people" anymore. It's exposed the emptiness of the stories they tell to push their own interests. The sides aren't Right and Left anymore. They're the side that has that contempt and the side nauseated by it. This clip is saying the quiet part out loud: Elites like to masquerade like there are major policy debates dividing them. But political polarization is a pantomime that disguises the crucial things they share—enormous wealth, capture of over 50% of GDP, the desire for control.
Jan 20, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
In the name of racial justice, progressives are sentencing Black children to live with bullets flying into their beds. They're siding with the mentally ill over the working class people they threaten, siding w/ the homeless over the poor kids whose parks they colonize. My latest: "High on their own virtue, rich elites w/ acres of property are voting in politicians who allow the homeless to rob poor kids of parks. People w/ 2 SUVs in their driveway are voting to allow mentally ill people to threaten working class folks on subways."
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