Look, it's historically terribly common for economically downtrodden & politically unrepresented to turn to race as part of their plight.
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Replying to @zeynep
Forget the pundit interpretation of Tea Party as anti-tax. Instead, see research: Skocpol and Williamson. http://www.amazon.com/The-Party-Remaking-Republican-Conservatism/dp/019997554X …
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Replying to @zeynep
Tea Party supporters, according to research, *wanted* welfare & essentially social-democracy but demarcated along "deserving" aka race.
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Replying to @zeynep
Tea Party as anti-tax, small-gov't revolt is a pundit/operative reading; not supported by research. Core was *who* gets government support.
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@craigperko Large swaths of population chronically unrepresented historically opens doors to ugly politics exploiting the underpresetation.1 reply 6 retweets 13 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
Also "Make X Great Again" is historically common in race-based/tinged populist politics in big/major nations.pic.twitter.com/faZINQYTXO
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Replying to @mattblaze
@mattblaze Thank you! Taping fingers not to unleash 1920s vs today analogies/rants. New mass comm tech; elite failure+excess; transitions...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@mattblaze Changes to the mass attention economy (and ways to exploit it) are similar too. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/701220761437134848 … Yikes.
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