We done glued our damn balls to our seats again. Soon after George Floyd’s death, alongside peaceful mass protests there was a substantial amount of looting and vandalism in Minneapolis and a few other cities. July 22, 2020 –On the Show: –David Shimer, fellow at Yale University and author of the book “Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference,” joins David to discuss foreign interference in elections, voter suppression, voter manipulation and much more. That makes it easy to dismiss the whole thing as a tempest in a teapot or a weird one-off with no broader implications. And if participants in the coalition are under pressure to never criticize anything that’s done in the name of a good cause, they will be unable to see or cope with trade-offs in a necessary way.There’s a very real argument about speech in progressive spaces.Wasow’s paper is in that spirit, seemingly looking to understand how Black Americans, despite being a politically disempowered numerical minority, were able to influence the political process. Free trade, open borders, taco trucks on every corner. He speculates that the famous mass protests of the 1960s may have played a role. Revealing wording there. The work of framing social justice rhetoric in a way that is optimized for winning elections requires real work and data and experimentation and a willingness to adjust tactics to seize rather than squander the opportunity to mobilize a broad coalition.He also finds that when protesters initiate property destruction and violence, the opposite happens and the news agenda and mass opinion shift to “social control” priorities that helped Nixon win in 1968.There is a genuine ongoing dialogue about whether claims made on behalf of racial justice should be subject to critical scrutiny. In their research they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is. Please read the sidebar for more information. But informing your political work with information about public opinion is common sense. The story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord, through V-J Day. That primarily means identifying issues it’s helpful for liberals to talk about and how it’s helpful to talk about them. Try googling the Princeton study instead of knee-jerk whining and projecting.Imagine willingly using Twitter in 2020it's unfortunate the left are ceding this issue to jonathan chait of all people.
She said she saw it as “an opportunity rather than a challenge; the opportunity to unite the movements.”Get our newsletter in your inbox twice a week.While details surrounding the firing remain somewhat murky, there are some things we do know. If the cops want to make sure a protest turns violent, that's kind of up to them."Conscience", veiled self interest and the making of petty personal grievances and perma-outrage brain into a political ideology One of the few things that Barack Obama and Donald Trump agree on is cancel culture. With Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt. Managing that coalition is difficult. And for that to happen, people need to be able to do what Shor did — raise questions about trade-offs, backlashes, and potential pitfalls even when emotions are running high. Shor, citing research by Princeton political scientist Omar Wasow, suggested that these incidents could prompt a political … Another says “they communicated that it was because of the tweet and that they viewed it as going against Civis values given the political environment around protests at the time.”The punchline to all this is that concerns of people like Shor about whether a possible protest backlash could boost Trump, so far, seem to be wrong.
They were joined in this by the vast majority of Black elected officials around the country. But he’s doing so in a way that mostly confirms Wasow’s main findings and the value of discussing them.But the issue is not nearly so minor as the deflationists make it out to be. The Shor story’s ambiguous ending — continued employment under cover of secrecy — suggests that the answer is a resounding “only time will tell.”But of larger importance is the criticism itself, which is wrong on the merits, and at least somewhat influential inside contemporary progressive politics.The important issue here is the underlying presumption that the tweet was racist.
And he asks how that role can be quantified.The tweet was characterized as “concern trolling” by the podcast host Benjamin Dixon, while Ari Trujillo Wesler, the impresario behind a popular organizing app, denounced it as “anti-Blackness.”But Valencia’s more diplomatic framing still contains the implication that there is an issue to discuss of how this slogan plays with Hispanics.