Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein
The only reason I write about politics is to attract the attention of jazz musicians. Joined February 2009-
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"The less students are listened to, the louder their shouting must become." chronicle.com/article/why-st…
To reporters: don't ask about parallels to 1968-70. Get off your asses and talk to the people protesting on all sides, cultivate leakers among police/security/admin, find policy documents, follow the money, etc, etc, etc. Figure out what's happening NOW. Later, we can talk.
This Pecker testimony has me reminiscing about 1998 at the LBJ Library ,puzzling out memos that appeared to concern founder of the National Enquirer attempting to donate six figures in exchange for an ambassadorship. (He never became an amassador.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generoso_….
One of my fave pieces, with coauthor Ricky Kreitner, on the political work done by the "outside agitator" trope. nybooks.com/online/2020/07…
If you, like me, feel some dread about what's at the edges of these protests, remember that every protest ever has been garlanded by fools & high emotion, that before social media you'd be seeing only the principle, & the principle is sound.
As partial moral repair for misleading about the extent of police violence pre-9/11, I'll l lift up this excellent, if incomplete Wikipedia page. It was routine to murder strikers before labor organizing became a right. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_w…
Was taken to be naively minimizing pre-9/11 thuggery. My fault for unclarity. I'm talking about decelopments like, as someone just told, realizing his 11-year-old ndidn't even know there was a DIFFERENCE between cops and military.
Was taken to be naively minimizing pre-9/11 thuggery. My fault for unclarity. I'm talking about decelopments like, as someone just told, realizing his 11-year-old ndidn't even know there was a DIFFERENCE between cops and military.
Instructive:
Incredibly disturbing footage out of Texas where authorities appear to be barring any pro-Palestinian protest at all in open outdoor areas of campus — not just disruptive ones. This appears to be a blatant violation not just of the First Amendment but S.B. 18 which requires these…
Incredibly disturbing footage out of Texas where authorities appear to be barring any pro-Palestinian protest at all in open outdoor areas of campus — not just disruptive ones. This appears to be a blatant violation not just of the First Amendment but S.B. 18 which requires these…
Kids probably have no idea, it's practically History Book stuff by now, but riot cops thugging out at the first sign of public disorder is basically (at least when it comes to white people) wasn't a thing before 9/11. In my book, I call it the emergence of Bed-Wetter Nation.
Speaker Johnson about Columbia U: "If this is not contained quickly and if these threats and intimidation do not stop, there is an appropriate time for the National Guard." Barely a dog whistle, from the media elite's new Winston Churchill. May 4, just around the corner...
Lordy. Mark Meadows. Maybe our institutions are up to the task after all. A patriot can dream... washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Didn't know he was fash-adjacent.
Didn't know he was fash-adjacent.
Andreessen: “Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential.” Perlstein: (The residents of Nagasaki and Hiroshima might once have wished to disagree.) Rick on billionaires. prospect.org/power/2024-04-…
I spill the tea about Silicon Valley's finest. prospect.org/power/2024-04-…
Four years ago today, Trump told Americans to inject bleach on national television
With David Pecker testifying in the Trump hush money trial, this piece of mine on how the National Enquirer worked as a tool of his 2016 campaign, entirely out of the notice of mainstream media, and the history of celebrity gossip as a right-wing genre. washingtonspectator.org/trump-national…
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@ddayen @rickperlstein I had the misfortune of living on the same dorm floor as him for 2 years. Had I known what he would become I'd have treated him with more open disdain
@rickperlstein Negotiating purchase of an ambassadorship was also a topic of discussion before the Supreme black robed today.
In case anyone is ambiguous about what giant bags of shitlessly scared morons our police are in today's era
@nbashaw What students were doing and saying was ASTRONOMICALLY more threatening than now. At Kent, burning down a building then cutting the firehoses. In Santa Barbara, burned down a bank. No one now talking about OVERTHROWING THE GOVERNMENT; routine rhetoric, then. Bomb-building.
@rickperlstein rick, just finished Before the Storm, and thought the bit on Berkeley's 1964 protests felt particularly resonant of the moment
@rickperlstein while i still will say that it has always been a thing in america, yes i will concede that post 9/11 the militarization of police ramped up a hundred fold to stomp out everything in it's path.
Backed up by the post-9/11 phenomenon of what I call the "automatic hero complex" in which all cops are automatically heroes by proxy because of the first responders in New York. The true origins of Blue Lives Matter.
Kids probably have no idea, it's practically History Book stuff by now, but riot cops thugging out at the first sign of public disorder is basically (at least when it comes to white people) wasn't a thing before 9/11. In my book, I call it the emergence of Bed-Wetter Nation.
@rickperlstein I distinctly recall going to Mexico as a child in the 80s and seeing soldiers patrolling tourist areas. It was shocking and terrifying to me. And now it’s basically standard here, too.
@rickperlstein Never mind the 60s it’s always been a thing going back to the coal strikes (many strikes, actually) and even before that when soldiers came home from World War I and set up tent cities only to be brutally attacked by cops. Veterans coming home from War.
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Kids probably have no idea, it's practically History Book stuff by now, but riot cops thugging out at the first sign of public disorder is basically (at least when it comes to white people) wasn't a thing before 9/11. In my book, I call it the emergence of Bed-Wetter Nation.
@rickperlstein @Dem_Soc_Dem_S Yes, they're more militarized now. They are not meaner or more racist or more violent than they ever were.
@rickperlstein The "War on Terror" fundamentally altered the ongoing American democratic experiment, and not for the better.
@rickperlstein That’s about how Churchill reacted in similar circumstances.
@Dem_Soc_Dem_S @rickperlstein Sure, Chicago ‘68 was one big police riot, but the visuals horrified the public, and it’s really not until after 9/11 you get the whole scale militarization of policing combined with open season on civil liberties. Heckuva job, G. Dubs
@rickperlstein Reading this 2015 New Yorker article by @tadfriend from our vantage point nine years later is illuminating. newyorker.com/magazine/2015/…
@ddayen @rickperlstein One should get a good broad liberal education before studying any tech field (law, medicine, computers, business,...): Re Andreesen "In December 1993,[2] he received his bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC).[4]" wikip
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