Political science professor. Has thoughts about that thing someone said.
Book: Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History
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https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/
Julia Azari
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it's like a cheap way of doing that because in the end, most people eat meat. they don't necessarily use it to perform those things, but it's not actually a transgressive behavior to consume even a lot of meat in a very messy, performative way.
New at the Smotus Report: Can a gay-bashing campaign by a scandal-plagued candidate still work? Who is this messaging even for?
Julia Azari
meat-eating at the boundary of masculinity claims and vice signaling
that writing feeling where you find the thread again
kitteeeeeens
i know the cool kids are fighting about California's ballot counting or something but some of us are writing a draft that we can tell we are going to have to draft many, many more times
Just who is the audience for Ken Paxton's gay slurs?
seems like the sort of inverse of the media meltdown over Biden being old - total focus on the outward performance of "energy"* and no connection to leadership on deeper issues.
*though watching people fight is not exactly a reliable indicator of energy...
the most epic worldwide knit in public day of all time. move over, UFC. we brought snacks and sharp sticks and a LOT of DIY stickers
my larger theory here is that the media norm is something like... detachment from the stakes of the issues= objectivity, which leaves emphasis on the shallowest, dumbest stuff as your main content
