Jeff Silverman

Dog Trainer, history nerd, New Deal Democrat, entrepreneur, lover of food.

[Jeff Silverman @JeffSilverman9]

@johnastoehr We have very few leaders in DC. We have timid careerist geriatric fundraisers. We desperately need new blood that’s not scared to use whatever power it can attain and that’s more focused on outcomes than processes. We need less loyalty and more accountability

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@jmart Yes, everything is fine. Nothing to see here. Governments captured by rapacious oligarchs don’t lose legitimacy and descend into violence. It’s in poor taste to even suggest such a thing. You’ll give the dirty plebes ideas.

[Jeff Silverman @JeffSilverman9]

@NPRinskeep @ScottJenningsKY Spoiler alert: yes he can.

[Jeff Silverman @JeffSilverman9]

@cmclymer This is the most Democratic answer ever. How do we still think that policy positions win elections? Policy details and outcomes don’t interest our political reporters, let alone swing voters. Narratives win elections; not policies. Dems need to learn that.

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@JamesFallows It’s insane. He told us repeatedly in 2020
that he wouldn’t accept defeat. Everyone pretended he didn’t mean it. This time all of MAGA makes tells us they’ll do away with free and fair elections. Why is it out of bounds to take them at their word?

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@RepRiggleman I know someone who read about the 3 Gorges Dam altering the earth’s rotation so that our days are a very tiny fraction of a second longer and now thinks dams cause climate change.

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@GregTSargent I spent 20 years in a MAGA former sundown town. This is how my neighbors saw the law. They don’t know how legislatures or courts work. The law to them is the police who enforce what feels right and squash whatever scares them. This predates Trump and it’s why they love him.

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@BriannaWu I can think of more accurate words and phrases than hallucinating: lying, misrepresenting, desperately trying to justify your approval of the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians. I’m sure there are more.

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@GregTSargent @m_donnelly4u I always believed that stupidity is more common than malice, but it’s becoming harder and harder that this coverage results from the impacts of an anachronistic media culture and well meaning people. They’re not whitewashing anymore. They’re erasing.

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@StephenM If you asked Americans who pay attention to news to free associate on “morally repugnant, cruel and utterly heartless,” I bet your name would be one of the top responses, weirdo.

[Jeff Silverman @JeffSilverman9]

@maggieNYT @ChrisCameronNYT @EricSchmittNYT Why is the statement from the army the first detailed account released when Chris Cameron was present when it happened? It’s getting really hard to see your paper as acting in good faith.

[Jeff Silverman @JeffSilverman9]

@espinsegall Looking forward to hearing more about it. I have yet to see a response from within the mainstream political press that even engaged with the actual critiques of how they cover Trump. I’d love to read something that isn’t just setting up strawmen and angrily knocking them down

[Jeff Silverman @JeffSilverman9]

@pam327 @espinsegall Exactly. It’s Dunning Kruger national park here in the comments. Yes, the political press generally and the Times politics reporters in particular have utterly failed, but the hostility to any complexity in trying to explain it is frustrating.

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@jayrosen_nyu @ruthbenghiat This is spot on. The most striking thing about that piece to me, though, was a supposedly savvy political analyst writing as if Ronald Reagan and “Morning in America” never happened. One would expect even his cynical colleagues and bosses to be embarrassed by that.

[Jeff Silverman @JeffSilverman9]

@davaldod @jayrosen_nyu @Will_Bunch Absolutely. They’re horrible, but I still subscribe and read it daily even though I hate giving them money.

[Jeff Silverman @JeffSilverman9]

@guypbenson Why would Right on Right crime be a DNC issue?

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@DavidM_Friedman @VP “Palestinians…who represent an existential threat to Israel.”

I guess we can give you “credit” for not putting it in code when you call for genocide. Yay honesty?

[Jeff Silverman @JeffSilverman9]

@imillhiser Have you read what people like Margaret Sullivan, Jay Rosen, James Fallows, and other like-minded media critics have to say? There’s a well-developed critique out there, and boiling it down to Her Emails as a unique sin feels like a bad faith avoidance of it.

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