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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org  ☮️

      TNC's presence in The Atlantic was so huge it distorted people's sense of the magazine. Now that TNC is gone, the centrist nature of the publication is much clearer.https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1130929738720174081 …

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      Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org  ☮️Verified account @froomkin
      Does anyone understand what is going on over at @TheAtlantic?
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2019

      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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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2019

      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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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2019

      The Atlantic could do well as the Joe Biden of magazines: broadly popular and hated on Twitter. a good model

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2019

      The journalistic problem is even if Biden becomes president (quite possible) the old American consensus won't return

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2019

      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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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2019

      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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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2019

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2019

      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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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 May 2019

          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 & @thenation

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        2. shaaver‏ @sishaaver 21 May 2019
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          it's a bingo. But that's not getting clicks.

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        2. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 21 May 2019
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          A mild dissent: I think a lot of interesting work on the right is being done by magazines that do envision a new center, or at least a new center-right, as precisely what the emergent politics of the moment might make possible.

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        3. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 21 May 2019
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          Meaning that the would-be populist and nationalist intellectuals are arguably closer to *a* center (as, on the campaign trail at least, was Trump) than were the conservative scribblers of 2012 or so.

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        1. Joe Ro‏ @joero3 21 May 2019
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          My issue with this is that magazines are not required to be cutting edge. They are also not required to represent some emerging consensus. In effect, if you are right The Atlantic could be the a truly conservative magazine -- a statement of what might have been.

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        1. 3rd Party Life‏ @3rdPartyLife 22 May 2019
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          You’re right. But if you’re a bigshot magazine editor in NYC things are pretty good and you’re not around the inequality and living paycheck to paycheck crisis. They don’t feel the pain that the majority of society is.

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