Trumpsky is so MANY things, including ur-tweeter and "paranoiac" (thanks, "Mooch")
One thing he is NOT: a conservative -- as various right-wing senators ruefully acknowledge, while differing with each other on such things as the virtues of Twitter.
Both Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Jeff Flake of Arizona have just published books about how woefully far from Reagan & Co. the Donald has been. As the Post reports today:
"Under Trump, the GOP faces 'a crisis of principle,' Flake says, calling for the party to retreat from its newfound fascination with nativism, populism and protectionism...."
He also complains of Trumpsky's infernal tweeting: "...'Ultimately it's all noise and no signal. And in the absence of preparation and a well-considered strategy -- especially when one is moving global chess pieces -- volatile unpredictability is not a virtue,' Flake writes."
The Atlantic magazine reported on Sasse's book: "Sasse has gone from Capitol Hill newbie to digital president[-]puncher* -- tweeting about Donald Trump’s affairs and the Midwestern dumpster fires he found more appealing than 2016’s Oval Office contenders."
The Atlantic sums up Sasse's complaint: "Democratic [small-"d"] deliberation is almost uniformly tainted with the assumption of bad faith. Platforms like Twitter, beloved [ironically!] by Sasse and Trump alike, thrive on outrage, reduction, and snark..."
Atlantic then chides him: "the fact that Sasse still believes in a shared American cultural project [ever if it includes things like Twitter!] is remarkable, given the extent of its unwinding..."
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* I remain a severe critic of abuse of some punctuation, notably hyphens. As the Atlantic editors saw fit to craft that sentence, NO hyphen means one cannot distinguish a real (not "digital") president being "punched" from whatever. And, no, I don't think "digital-punching" was intended. After all, the magazine is a real thing; it's being digitized is just a convenience to ME (not having to key in the whole quote)...
Both Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Jeff Flake of Arizona have just published books about how woefully far from Reagan & Co. the Donald has been. As the Post reports today:
"Under Trump, the GOP faces 'a crisis of principle,' Flake says, calling for the party to retreat from its newfound fascination with nativism, populism and protectionism...."
He also complains of Trumpsky's infernal tweeting: "...'Ultimately it's all noise and no signal. And in the absence of preparation and a well-considered strategy -- especially when one is moving global chess pieces -- volatile unpredictability is not a virtue,' Flake writes."
The Atlantic magazine reported on Sasse's book: "Sasse has gone from Capitol Hill newbie to digital president[-]puncher* -- tweeting about Donald Trump’s affairs and the Midwestern dumpster fires he found more appealing than 2016’s Oval Office contenders."
The Atlantic sums up Sasse's complaint: "Democratic [small-"d"] deliberation is almost uniformly tainted with the assumption of bad faith. Platforms like Twitter, beloved [ironically!] by Sasse and Trump alike, thrive on outrage, reduction, and snark..."
Atlantic then chides him: "the fact that Sasse still believes in a shared American cultural project [ever if it includes things like Twitter!] is remarkable, given the extent of its unwinding..."
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* I remain a severe critic of abuse of some punctuation, notably hyphens. As the Atlantic editors saw fit to craft that sentence, NO hyphen means one cannot distinguish a real (not "digital") president being "punched" from whatever. And, no, I don't think "digital-punching" was intended. After all, the magazine is a real thing; it's being digitized is just a convenience to ME (not having to key in the whole quote)...