catiebailard.bsky.social
Political scientist, associate prof. of political communication in SMPA @ GW, IDDP research cluster lead, SF sports fan. Research interests mostly focus on the intersection of ICT and (threats to) democracy.
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People have been protesting since inauguration at numbers that eclipse what was happening in 2017. The widespread & sustained participation has just been largely ignored by legacy media (I wonder why…), leading many to understandably but incorrectly conclude people’ve been checked out.
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RTR girl over here too, as Rebekah learned after showing up to a meeting in a sweater I have been trying to rent for maybe years! 😂 Looks as cool in person as I imagined. Tbh, still a little envious, but also mollified a bit by it looking so great on her.
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Academics in the subfield of political communication have been studying campaigns, messaging, media effects, voting, pub opinion, social media, etc. for DECADES. We’ve got a ton of research that would be useful, but the D’s mostly ignore us in favor advisers/consultants who continue to fail them.
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I have a male colleague who frequently restates a woman’s point in slightly diff words at faculty meetings. Not trying to make excuses for him, but it’s so automatic, I wonder if he’s conscious of it. Not lost on me that many of our male colleagues seem to obliviously accept it as his own thoughts.
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Also undoubtedly believes that “asylum seekers” are patients from other countries mental health institutions.
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(Link: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...)
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he drove Europe into a new system of international politics bounded by law.”
Napoleon’s intellect certainly far surpassed Trump’s. But, of all the takes I’ve heard trying to find some unifying logic to Trump’s “strategy”, this by far makes the most sense.
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He convinced European princes and statesmen that an alternative… had to be found because playing the old game with him was intolerable… Napoleon
contributed nothing positive to this outcome. Nevertheless, lawless to the end, a law unto himself…
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He had no final goal, because he often pursued any and all goals and none in particular; because his imagination and ambition could be captured by anything and his loyalty secured by nothing Napoleon's great service to European international politics was to be a very efficient scourge
of God…
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They were accustomed the unscrupulous, semipiratical politics of the late eighteenth century; in most instances they wanted to continue it to their own
benefit, in collaboration with France. But their previous experience, far from preparing them for
dealing with Napoleon, misled them….
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operating somewhere within the normal rules, w/whom normal international politics was possible. He was not. He was a criminal leader of a criminal enterprise, with whom normal transactions and relations designed to achieve their normal aims of equality, security, and independence were not possible…
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It me
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Definitely. IMO, the 2 defining characteristics of Trump that are the basis of his political power are his unprecedented willingness to wield the threat of political violence & the fact there is literally no bottom for him. The man is incapable of shame, yet simultaneously obsessed with his image.
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JFK, it’s all there. In the historical record, clear as day. APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS. You may have deluded yourself for the moment that you satiated the bully. But all you did was tell the bully you are an easy target… and sold out your principles and profession in the same breath. Bravo.
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*chef’s kiss*
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Particularly appalling was Schumer saying: when things get bad enough, the public will stand up in defense of democracy. Not only a total abdication of the responsibility of leadership in this moment, but embodies D’s inability to grasp the crucial role leaders play in meaning-making for the public.
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Only seconded by your baby repeatedly looking over your head during a bath, giggling and babbling at something seemingly floating just behind you.
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The way these cowards use their kids as literal human shields. Monstrous.
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100% tracks w/ conversations I’ve been privy to being in DC for 15+ years. It’s mind blowing this is where they still are. Why it’s time to revisit term limits. People were so worried about the influence of lobbyists, didn’t stop to think what it meant for them all to become so institutionalized.
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If we get through this, we need to take a very different look at the way we think about the utility of term limits. 8/x
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Who politely look the other way when their colleagues are clearly on cognitive decline. Because it might be uncomfortable or untoward to confront the reality, whatever the cost to their constituents. (Looking at you Feinstein.) 7/x
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So committed to seniority system (ie. 'I waited my turn to be committee chair; why should I give up my position in line?') they’d rather let the country crumble than wrest leadership from the gerontocracy. Who clearly have neither the will nor stamina to stand up to this dire a political moment.
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Who still think their relationships with the spineless and captured Reps they’ve worked beside for decades actually hold the potential for meaningful bipartisanship, despite all evidence to the contrary. 5/x