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@DavidAstinWalsh demonstrate? Not only does it address almost none of Gladwell's claim, it is constantly putting quotes in its responses as if Gladwell made a claim that it's refuting. It's incredibly disingenuous and misleading.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @speakthelogos @HeerJeet and
By refusing to engage in or refute Bannon's ideology, you provide no compelling counterargument, no competing vision for people to believe in. You create a vacuum filled by Bannon who has all the distribution he could possibly want already.
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Replying to @speakthelogos @HeerJeet and
It's not as if the New Yorker is full of his audience anyways. His audience is listening to him every day already. Some off-topic ramblings by a history grad student doesn't address that central argument, and you won't address it here either.
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Replying to @speakthelogos @HeerJeet and
*huddles in corner with bruised ego.*
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Replying to @DavidAstinWalsh @speakthelogos and
In all seriousness, one of my points in the thread is that McCarthyism didn’t simply go away after 1954, but became central to conservative politics.
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Replying to @DavidAstinWalsh @speakthelogos and
That’s why the myth of the AMH and the Murrow moment—which is what Gladwell was referring to—are so misleading. Because those myths exceptionalize McCarthy.
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Replying to @DavidAstinWalsh @HeerJeet and
The argument is over whether or not people like Bannon or McCarthy should be engaged by those that disagree with them. While your thread was (seriously) fascinating and very educational on the history around McCarthy, it did not whatsoever address that argument.
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Replying to @speakthelogos @DavidAstinWalsh and
Sigh. Gladwell wrote: "Joe McCarthy was done in when he was confronted by someone with intelligence and guts, before a live audience." It's false because McCarthy's downfall had to do with something bigger (fact he picked fight with army). Welch moment was spectacle not decisive
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Replying to @HeerJeet @DavidAstinWalsh and
It's not a charitable assumption to read "done in" as "single-handled ending the anti-communist witchhunt"; it's pretty obvious he means that he lost the interaction.
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"done in" and "gallows" clearly means =the exchange was the end of McCarthy. It simply wasn't. Gladwell is offering a cheap, cartoon version of history.
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