Yes, exactly. This isn’t some rare thing that just happened because of weird circumstances. This is a playbook that works. This is a global playbook on the rise. This is a playbook found in America’s past, too. Realism is the true basis for hope.https://twitter.com/TheAnnaGat/status/1324798491986710536 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted b-boy bouiebaisse
So this is the counter-argument: there was too much suis generis celebrity in the recipe for it to be replicated. My feeling is that the celebrity made up for the incompetence, and the next iteration may be a media personality or political charismatic.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1324798113882800130 …
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b-boy bouiebaisseVerified account @jbouieI've said this a few times before but I am not so certain there is anyone who can replicate Trumpism and get the same political results except for Trump. Somehow, we still greatly underrate the extent to which Trump's sui generis celebrity is his special sauce.Show this thread39 replies 45 retweets 529 likesShow this thread -
By the way, this tweet was posted and quickly deleted but... As I wrote in the piece, this is an excellent outcome for GOP that is not Trump or his family—they are well positioned for the next four years, and many of them are eyeing 2024 already, without the Trump ballast.pic.twitter.com/BWvssbZ6GI
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted We'll Dump The Line
You know, this is actually a very good point. Identifying would-be authoritarians early on and defining them is a crucial job. It really matters. Trump is product of The Apprentice, no question about it.https://twitter.com/TWmimsong/status/1324832432126861312 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Yudhanjaya Wijeratne 🎭
TIL that many Americans think that Trump had some unique, unrepeatable sorcery, while many around the world look at him and concur that we were lucky and we got an incompetent version—for this time. It won't repeat the same, but the playbook is so common.https://twitter.com/yudhanjaya/status/1324790209758720000 …
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Yudhanjaya Wijeratne 🎭 @yudhanjayaThis. My friends in the US keep wailing about Trump being a dictator. To which the only response is: you haven't seen an efficient dictator yet, just a loudmouth. Wait till you get someone both evil and competent. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1324779434558267392 …Show this thread23 replies 148 retweets 663 likesShow this thread -
MIT scholar Daren Acemoglu ("Why Nations Fail") also has a piece titled "Trump Won’t Be the Last American Populist" and says"the conditions that produced him need to be understood to be addressed." Acemoglu is also, uh, from Turkey. Compleeete coincidence! https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-11-06/trump-wont-be-last-american-populist …pic.twitter.com/WVDUWbhu1l
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On the one hand, the incompetence is now on full display. Four Seasons Landscaping for the win!
On the other hand it’s only *last week* he got abandoned by Fox News, and saw actual pushback from Facebook and Twitter. Only after he lost. Watch the next four years for that, too.10 replies 22 retweets 389 likesShow this thread -
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That’s off by an order of magnitude but this was indeed something like the fourth or fifth closest election in a century
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Closer elections were 1948, 1960, 2000, and maybe 2016
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lol yeah did the zeroes in my head, two places off h
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