"Whatever you do, don’t tell a joke underlining the fact that a ravening pack of these goons wanted to hang Mike Pence for his loyalty to the Constitution."
That sounds funny actually let me just open Twitter and...
On a more serious note this is a good article but I think you paint the mainstream media as a hapless victim when in fact it has a more complicated relationship with Trump and his supporters. It is remarkable to me that while many journalists laud Twitter for 'deplatforming' him few seem to ever consider their own role in handing him that megaphone and amplifying his every Tweet. Will the next Trump rally still get coverage and if so why?
Thanks for the satisfying analysis. Reading the piece, I found myself wondering if you're familiar with spiral dynamics or integral theory. They draw on and considerably overlap with Ronald Inglehart's World Values Survey categories of worldviews and values. My suspicion is that this sort of developmental framework is the skeleton key for decoding the culture wars that drive political polarization. As rich and valuable as Ezra's analysis is, like a lot of the political science/psychology stuff these days, too much social and evolutionary psychology, not enough developmental psychology and cultural evolution.
Been following your work since the "Tale of Two Moralities" piece. Really excited to see where you take this new project. And hoping to someday hear about those two forays into grad school in philosophy!
"If you’ve spent the past three years listening closely to Trump, Steve Bannon, Steven Miller, Tucker Carlson, etc., the loyalist media ecosystem around them, and poking into forums and message boards populated with their enthusiastic fans, you don’t need to guess what the quiet part sounds like when it’s said out loud."
This is also why living in Iowa for the Trump years was very good, actually--even if it didn't seem that way at the time.
"Whatever you do, don’t tell a joke underlining the fact that a ravening pack of these goons wanted to hang Mike Pence for his loyalty to the Constitution."
That sounds funny actually let me just open Twitter and...
On a more serious note this is a good article but I think you paint the mainstream media as a hapless victim when in fact it has a more complicated relationship with Trump and his supporters. It is remarkable to me that while many journalists laud Twitter for 'deplatforming' him few seem to ever consider their own role in handing him that megaphone and amplifying his every Tweet. Will the next Trump rally still get coverage and if so why?
Thanks for the satisfying analysis. Reading the piece, I found myself wondering if you're familiar with spiral dynamics or integral theory. They draw on and considerably overlap with Ronald Inglehart's World Values Survey categories of worldviews and values. My suspicion is that this sort of developmental framework is the skeleton key for decoding the culture wars that drive political polarization. As rich and valuable as Ezra's analysis is, like a lot of the political science/psychology stuff these days, too much social and evolutionary psychology, not enough developmental psychology and cultural evolution.
Been following your work since the "Tale of Two Moralities" piece. Really excited to see where you take this new project. And hoping to someday hear about those two forays into grad school in philosophy!
"If you’ve spent the past three years listening closely to Trump, Steve Bannon, Steven Miller, Tucker Carlson, etc., the loyalist media ecosystem around them, and poking into forums and message boards populated with their enthusiastic fans, you don’t need to guess what the quiet part sounds like when it’s said out loud."
This is also why living in Iowa for the Trump years was very good, actually--even if it didn't seem that way at the time.