Thomas Zimmer

@tzimmer_history

Historian. Assistant Professor . Focus on contemporary U.S., German, and Transatlantic History. Writing a history of “polarization” since the 1960s.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: veljača 2011.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    23. stu 2019.

    I wrote a piece for on the discourse, the larger implications of approaching the past through the prism of polarization, and the challenges of writing a pre-history of the (supposedly) “polarized” present.

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  2. Look, I know all the pundits want to demonstrate how totally-not-naïve they are and how they have totally figured out this cunning game that is politics – but I still think it’s harmful to applaud dishonest behavior by politicians as savvy and praise cynical strategies as smart.

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    New from me: No, liberal professors are not brainwashing their students. You all know the Indoctrination Thesis. For large sections of the Right, it is taken as Gospel proof. But the overwhelming weight of evidence says it does not happen.

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  4. Taken together, much of the perception of U.S. politics in Germany is shaped by misleading assumptions of the GOP as a conservative party in the CDU mold and the left flank of the Democratic Party as “radical left,” which invokes ideas of revolutionary, undemocratic factions./end

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  5. Both Sanders and AOC are, in terms of their policy positions, nowhere near what we would consider “radical” in the German political discourse. In fact, I would place Sanders firmly in the social democratic spectrum, and AOC is basically a mainstream Green Party progressive./6

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  6. Interestingly, there is much less reluctance to think of forces inside the Democratic Party as “far left”: Progressives such as AOC are often presented as “radical,” and B. Sanders as “socialist.” Which they are not, certainly not in the way these terms are defined in Germany./5

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  7. Doing so leads to all sorts of analytical problems and blind spots that are prevalent in the German debate over U.S. politics. If you assume that the GOP is “konservativ” while Trump is very clearly not, then you’re left with conceptualizing Trump as an aberration or accident./4

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  8. That may not be true in every policy area, of course. But if you try to locate the “center” or mainstream of these parties and the core political projects they pursue, it is highly misleading to place the GOP in the “konservativ” part of the German political spectrum./3

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  9. Most German observers still employ the label “conservative” to describe the GOP, thereby invoking the idea of a political coalition akin to Germany’s Christian Democratic Union. Substantively speaking, however, the GOP is much closer to the far right AfD than to the Merkel CDU./2

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  10. I want to echo 's argument in this great thread. Crucially, a similar reluctance to think of the forces and movements now clearly defining the Republican Party as “far right” still shapes European perceptions of American politics as well. /1

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  11. “Picked a name out of a hat” being part of a “democratic” process somehow doesn’t feel super great...

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  13. Amen! (And “Often times,” in this sentence, really means “Throughout most of American history”)

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    2. velj

    Here's your assignment America. Write an essay that compares and contrasts this 2014 Bill O'Reilly Super Bowl interview of President Obama with Sean Hannity's halftime interview of President Trump in 2020.

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    This truly may be the worst piece of political analysis I've ever read, treating corrupt Republican partisanship and the almost-inevitable acquittal it produced as a display of Trump's mighty will to power and unbreakable might

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    Well yeah, but how do you know they wouldn’t be super cooperative and civil about absolutely immediately removing Biden for the sole reason of being a Democrat? How do you know?!?!

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  18. 2. velj

    “Is that what you expected?” – “Not at all. Disturbing!” It really is, isn’t it?

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  19. 2. velj

    This! And also, closely related: Powerful Murdoch media.

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  20. 2. velj

    Hahaha! These guys are all so shamelessly ridiculous – what a sad spectacle it all is.

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