The financial elite doesn’t order seamless, Michael. This conflation of the relatively diverse creative class of new york city with a financial elite whose resources and political influence dwarf theirs is increasingly absurd.
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Replying to @AdamSerwer @michaelbd and
This conflation is central to the conservative nationalist rhetorical strategy. No matter how furiously it is denied, the idea of nationhood is ethnocultural, so educated urban whites pose a problem solved by identifying kombucha yoga mat culture with globalist vulture capital.
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Replying to @willwilkinson @AdamSerwer and
I believe that the real reason Republicans have suddenly decided that the "send her back" chants are politically too much to bear is that it reveals the ethnocultural roots of this nationalism in an undeniable way, to those very same educated whites (though many are suburban).
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Replying to @matthewstoller @willwilkinson and
I laid the argument all out here, if interested: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/19/new-gop-panic-about-trumps-racism-reveals-an-ugly-truth/?utm_term=.c44975a65554 …
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Replying to @ThePlumLineGS @matthewstoller and
Hey you guys, wanna talk about the Cats trailer?
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Replying to @MrJonCryer @ThePlumLineGS and
Why are you trying to foment division, Jon?
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Replying to @willwilkinson @MrJonCryer and
That trailer makes me want to recreate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
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Replying to @matthewstoller @willwilkinson and
My desire for more movie musicals and my desire for preserving a dignified legacy for T.S. Eliot are in terrible conflict here.
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Replying to @michaelbd @matthewstoller and
This is the appropriate ironic punishment for all his cultivated snobbery
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Eliot was a snob in public but less so in private. He corresponded with Groucho Marx.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @michaelbd and
i think i know that from watching dick cavett
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