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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 27 Jun 2018
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    Tea Party analogy to present is flawed. Most major media were absolutely riveted by the Tea Party in 2009-2010, giving it endless airtime. By comparison, media tend to dismiss and ignore left-wing insurgent movements, only covering them when they're absolutely forced to

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      2. Seva‏ @SevaUT 27 Jun 2018
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        I want to say Occupy was the exception, but I'm not even sure about that...

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 27 Jun 2018
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        Coverage of Occupy plays into this thesis. In the early days (I was there...) there was widespread consternation that media was ignoring the movement. Only when a critical mass was reached (usually involving police beatings) did most media find themselves forced to cover it

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      2. Dr. Franklinstein  🎃‏ @FranklinH3000 27 Jun 2018
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        I think there's an element of the freak show to this. Everyone wants to see the freak show. Most in the media don't see the far left as freakish in the way they see the far right.

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 27 Jun 2018
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        That's true. Right-wing stuff is always seen as a novelty to be intimately dissected for meaning. But because many in media have at least some affinity with left-wing movements, they don't see them as novel or needing of dissection

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      1. 21st Century FDR‏ @21stCenturyFDR 27 Jun 2018
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        Also can't forget the corporate interests backing the embedded rooting of the Tea Party. This is during a time when people thought* Obama was going to wield a sledgehammer in office. How wrong we all were.

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      1. calvin‏ @communistcatdad 27 Jun 2018
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        pic.twitter.com/EZgPf6byMC

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      1. CC‏ @ChodeCaptain 27 Jun 2018
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        Is there any reason to believe that this isn't completely by design? The tea party has proven to be no threat to the establishment. The far left clearly is.

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      1. Kelechi Onwuchekwa‏ @nyonwu 27 Jun 2018
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        You have to remember that media coverage of the TP, and other groups like BLM vs. KKK, and Trump, and the #resistance, all fit a prevailing MSM narrative. Said narrative ignores larger undercurrents in society and is the elitist way of ensuring Americans fight each other.

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      1. Gil Reich‏ @GilR 27 Jun 2018
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        Media love Repubs are extremists and destroying themselves stories. They're not as fond of our voters are rejecting us stories.

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      1. Griddle Actual‏ @JimmyGriddle 27 Jun 2018
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        That's because the media RACES to report divisions among the GOP. But they do their best to IGNORE divisions that the DNC doesn't want reported. That's why Bernie never got a fair showing.

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      1. Viceroy‏ @T2hays 27 Jun 2018
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        The Media actually hate left-wing progressives.

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      1. Andrea De Costa‏ @kbaygirl 27 Jun 2018
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        Don’t feel bad; they’ve been ignoring the protests by indigenous Kanaka Maoli to the illegal annexation of Hawaii since 1893. ✌🏽

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      2. Connie Colvin‏ @CCB5Keithfan34 27 Jun 2018
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        TOTALLY TRUE, AND SICKENING. TEA PARTY DOESNT THREATEN THEIR ILL GOTTEN GAINS AND GREED.

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      1. NICK DYER‏ @MrNickDyer 27 Jun 2018
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        One candidacy does not make an insurgent left movement. You’re right it’s not comparable, but wrong about the reasons.

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      1. Fishbones‏ @Fishbones2017 27 Jun 2018
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        Well, no choice but to force them

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      1. ClempsonTiguhs‏ @WillRiceCook 27 Jun 2018
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        Usually because it reflects poorly on libs when their constituents are screaming profanity, burning cars breaking windows and attacking the defenseless

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      1. Count Sporkula, 'Weenophile #EarnMyVote #Bern2020‏ @a9ymous 27 Jun 2018
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        Count Sporkula, 'Weenophile #EarnMyVote #Bern2020 Retweeted Count Sporkula, 'Weenophile #EarnMyVote #Bern2020

        Word!https://twitter.com/a9ymous/status/1011976076069883905 …

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        Pundits trying to equate progressive wins with Tea Party overthrows are trying to sell you something. Those vehicles for change do not run on the same fuel (love vs hate). It takes a special kind of disingenuous sleaze to mention @Ocasio2018 and Dave Brat in the same breath.
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      2. Aaron Yates‏ @YatesAaron 27 Jun 2018
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        The Tea Party had 2 policy positions; spending and Obamacare. Current insurgent movements have no core policy positions. That's the problem of UAW workers in a coalition with the Sierra Club and Black Evangelicals in a coalition with Planned Parenthood/LGBT groups, etc.

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      3. Aaron Yates‏ @YatesAaron 27 Jun 2018
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        Is it a movement against tariffs and for free-trade like Clinton, or for tariffs and against free-trade like Bernie? Socialist or not? Since Trump has no visible firm policy, it's hard to report on a movement as bipolar as that it organizes against.

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