More broadly, I think Jeffrey Goldberg has decided to make The Atlantic the magazine of neo-centrism or Joe Biden liberalism. That's a smart move politically & economically (that's a big, underserved market) but maybe not editorially.
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Neo-centrist nostalgia politics (what I once called the ancien regime resistance) is being underserved. Lots of people think like that, maybe enough to make Joe Biden president. I just don't think it'll make for an interesting magazine.
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The Atlantic could do well as the Joe Biden of magazines: broadly popular and hated on Twitter. a good model
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The journalistic problem is even if Biden becomes president (quite possible) the old American consensus won't return
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Even if Biden is elected, the old consensus won't return: the neo-liberal/neo-conservative consensus of 1988-2008 was destroyed by the Iraq War, the financial meltdown & the racist backlash (already evident in Palin's rhetoric) to Obama. Even Obama couldn't bring it back.
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Even if Biden is elected, all the forces driving fragmentation & polarization (the climate crisis & the policy imperatives it demands, inequality, the increasingly vocal racism on the right) will continue. So the project of a centrist revival is DOA.
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Because the old consensus can't be revived, I question the journalistic wisdom of trying to recreate that consensus in virtual reality form (as a magazine or op ed page).
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As the saying goes, we have to be as radical as reality itself. That's good advice for a magazine editor. Journalistically I think the interesting work is being done by magazines that are not creating a new center but trying to grapple with emergent politics of the moment
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On the right, there's attempts to rehabilitate nationalism & populism (in effect a more cerebral Trumpism) in
@ModernAgeMag,@amconmag & writings of@michaelbd. On the left, the dialogue between liberals & socialist in@thebafflermag,@newrepublic &@thenationShow this thread
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also think "The Daily Dish" years skewed things (tbh our understanding of Sullivan as well as The Atlantic)
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this is kinda wild https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/
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