The material base of Slatepitch & Kinsley era TNR was contradiction in Dem coalition. Elite college educated whites who were culturally liberal but had little taste for or personal stake in redistributionist or egalitarian politics. Contrarianism designed to paper over divide
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Slatepitch allowed elite college educated whites to present themselves as edgy freethinkers while offering substantive policies that were pro-status quo. To be conservative in fact but in style. The more polarized politics of post 2008 have rendered this moot.
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It definitely did mean that at one point. Slate itself has changed a lot since then, though. The real successor to this idea is
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Not going to take the clickbait, but if he’s not going to acknowledge the contrarianism-> Breitbart -> Trump pipeline, he’s missing an important point.
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there's money to be made in glib contrarianism
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I would click on a 'the slatepitch is bad actually' piece.
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Some people's entire career could be viewed as a slatepitch.
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What would you call your style of journalism? I’d go with “irrelevant.”
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u mad bro?
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What would you say represented Slate at its best?
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