Rick Perlstein
@rickperlstein.bsky.social
"O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
The land that never has been yet..."
People don't get that George Wallace also always lost in court, too, often stupidly. Liberals would declare victory. But Wallace won where it counted for him: in performing for his base, and building extra-lega authoritarian powerl. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/due-to-...
Due to Botched Paperwork, Comey May Never Have Been Properly Indicted
ALEXANDRIA, VA—In a stunning admission, prosecutors in the James Comey case conceded that...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
People don't get that George Wallace also always lost in court, too, often stupidly. Liberals would declare victory. But Wallace won where it counted for him: in performing for his base, and building extra-lega authoritarian powerl. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/due-to-...
There's this fascinating thing nitwits do onlineb where they challenge an argument but do their settings so you can't respond. So I'll do so here:
fine, insert JD Vance. The point, which you missed, is that the authoritarianism built into GOP politics, transcends any mere individual.
fine, insert JD Vance. The point, which you missed, is that the authoritarianism built into GOP politics, transcends any mere individual.
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There's this fascinating thing nitwits do onlineb where they challenge an argument but do their settings so you can't respond. So I'll do so here:
fine, insert JD Vance. The point, which you missed, is that the authoritarianism built into GOP politics, transcends any mere individual.
fine, insert JD Vance. The point, which you missed, is that the authoritarianism built into GOP politics, transcends any mere individual.
Could the Epstein Files kerfuffle take down Trump? Sure, maybe. Which could end up with Russell Vought and Steve Miller transferring allegiance to a MJT or Tucker Carlson or whomever. Don't take your eye off the big picture. It's the fascism, stupid.
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Could the Epstein Files kerfuffle take down Trump? Sure, maybe. Which could end up with Russell Vought and Steve Miller transferring allegiance to a MJT or Tucker Carlson or whomever. Don't take your eye off the big picture. It's the fascism, stupid.
Laura Loomer to 2022 speech to American Renaissance neo-Nazi conference: "Most Americans, and conservative Americans, actually share our views, but the cancel culture and fear of being silenced…prevents them from speaking." Also called herself a "white advocate."
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Laura Loomer to 2022 speech to American Renaissance neo-Nazi conference: "Most Americans, and conservative Americans, actually share our views, but the cancel culture and fear of being silenced…prevents them from speaking." Also called herself a "white advocate."
Knee-buckling report from Justice Dept sources. "[T]wo pastors close to Trump have given their approval.... One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans."
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Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Knee-buckling report from Justice Dept sources. "[T]wo pastors close to Trump have given their approval.... One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans."
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
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Mark Sanford back in the newzz...
November 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Mark Sanford back in the newzz...
Alternately: "The woke mob took over. Otherwise New York would be great again."
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Alternately: "The woke mob took over. Otherwise New York would be great again."
Staggering safety lapses, the kind that blow up airplanes. It's almost as if #ICEair doesn't even care about the white people flying the planes, either.
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ICE Air’s Sloppy, Dangerous Deportation Flights - The American Prospect
Poor planning, mechanical issues, serious safety lapses, and the shutdown are taking a toll on Avelo, America’s most famous deportation airline, internal documents show.
prospect.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Staggering safety lapses, the kind that blow up airplanes. It's almost as if #ICEair doesn't even care about the white people flying the planes, either.
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
Slighltly rewritten, with a headline like "Epstein Emails: In 2000s, Elite New York Was Rife With Sexual Predators," this could have been great journalism. As actually executed, it is a signal document of an era- defining institutional moral rot.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...
Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Slighltly rewritten, with a headline like "Epstein Emails: In 2000s, Elite New York Was Rife With Sexual Predators," this could have been great journalism. As actually executed, it is a signal document of an era- defining institutional moral rot.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...
Chicago Trib on teenage anti-ICE activists: "If I get the opportunity to fight like this for the rest of my life, I would be totally OK with that."
The future of our country depends, in part, upon whether the Democratic Party does or does not have space for young people like that.
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The future of our country depends, in part, upon whether the Democratic Party does or does not have space for young people like that.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Chicago Trib on teenage anti-ICE activists: "If I get the opportunity to fight like this for the rest of my life, I would be totally OK with that."
The future of our country depends, in part, upon whether the Democratic Party does or does not have space for young people like that.
archive.ph/qsazc
The future of our country depends, in part, upon whether the Democratic Party does or does not have space for young people like that.
archive.ph/qsazc
Getting responses calling for violence against ICE. Even if this were morally acceptable it would be strategically disastrous. Just the existence of such postsout in the public puts migrants and their allies--you and me--at greater risk. Imagine them on Fox News.
So, yes, ICE/CPB have descended upon Charlotte. One possible danger I'll be watching about for: North Carolina allows open-carry of guns without a permit, with no limits on weapon caliber size or magazine capacity. Pray for peace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Getting responses calling for violence against ICE. Even if this were morally acceptable it would be strategically disastrous. Just the existence of such postsout in the public puts migrants and their allies--you and me--at greater risk. Imagine them on Fox News.
This is a fascinating and groundbreaking book revealing "fair and balanced" as a right- wing media strategy going back to the 50s.
The blurbs are in!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is a fascinating and groundbreaking book revealing "fair and balanced" as a right- wing media strategy going back to the 50s.
Reposted by Rick Perlstein
The blurbs are in!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The blurbs are in!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
Reposted by Rick Perlstein
I'll just put this here. The people of the Chicago, for now, have nonviolently turned out the tyrants. Made their work too costly. Charlotte, we can teach you things; as you will surely soon have things to teach us. We shall overcome.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
Inside Chicago’s growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: ‘Small acts have huge consequences’
In Chicago, the resistance to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission has taken many forms. A movement has grown through acts large and small.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I'll just put this here. The people of the Chicago, for now, have nonviolently turned out the tyrants. Made their work too costly. Charlotte, we can teach you things; as you will surely soon have things to teach us. We shall overcome.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
So, yes, ICE/CPB have descended upon Charlotte. One possible danger I'll be watching about for: North Carolina allows open-carry of guns without a permit, with no limits on weapon caliber size or magazine capacity. Pray for peace.
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
So, yes, ICE/CPB have descended upon Charlotte. One possible danger I'll be watching about for: North Carolina allows open-carry of guns without a permit, with no limits on weapon caliber size or magazine capacity. Pray for peace.
Reposted by Rick Perlstein
I’m reading Nixonland right now, and I do believe Mr. Perlstein had (unknowingly?) nailed the coming of Trump with his observations on the rise of Nixon in the Nixon vs. the liberal elite scenes of 1952.
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I’m reading Nixonland right now, and I do believe Mr. Perlstein had (unknowingly?) nailed the coming of Trump with his observations on the rise of Nixon in the Nixon vs. the liberal elite scenes of 1952.
Reposted by Rick Perlstein
@rickperlstein.bsky.social I've been absolutely devouring Invisible Bridge - a wonderful read. Thank you for writing it. Had no idea how much the Jimmy Kimmel saga was a repeat of past behavior
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
@rickperlstein.bsky.social I've been absolutely devouring Invisible Bridge - a wonderful read. Thank you for writing it. Had no idea how much the Jimmy Kimmel saga was a repeat of past behavior
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This is important context from Julie K. Brown.
With alt text.
With alt text.
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is important context from Julie K. Brown.
With alt text.
With alt text.
Straight up Bircher-style lunacy here. It may become very much worse on the ground, very soon.
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Opinion | The Politics of Anarchy
Socialists regard disorder as a means to an end: government control.
www.wsj.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Straight up Bircher-style lunacy here. It may become very much worse on the ground, very soon.
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Episode 1871: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy / Ray Madoff
Tax Code
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November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
They crossed the land bridge from Russia to Alaska, duh. Who said they could do that?
November 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
They crossed the land bridge from Russia to Alaska, duh. Who said they could do that?
