2. When the Ford scandal first broke, there were superficial comparisons with Barry (they both smoked crack) but nothing deeper.
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3. The more useful point of comparison is to think about populist anger and under-served populations.
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4. You can't understand Marion Barry without the context of a white elite that had treated city as fiefdom since the creation of city.
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@AdamSerwer provides a useful snapshot of what that white elite looked like in 1967: https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/536529037729226752 …Jeet Heer added,
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6. The publisher and editor of the Washington Post insisting on a white mayor. Your liberal media at work, folks.
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7. Extrapolate that Bradlee/Graham anecdote to a city where the interests of the vast majority were shunted aside & you understand Barry.
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8. Both Ford and Barry found a ready constituency which legitimately felt their needs had been neglected.
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9. The legal troubles Ford and Barry found themselves in only served to heighten the populist drama. "They are out to get him."
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10. In Barry's case, persecution narrative was justified: there was real police entrapment that targeted him.
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@damonw78 @tanehisicoates If there is police entrapment, then that's the issue. What person does is secondary.
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