I disagree -- The Bulwark is performing an important role in analyzing the news. If you want to take political action, then get involved in groups that align with your ideological and strategic sensibilities.
I disagree -- The Bulwark is performing an important role in analyzing the news. If you want to take political action, then get involved in groups that align with your ideological and strategic sensibilities.
So far, it is an op-ed outlet. It calls us a community and calls us to join in live events. Op Ed news people don't have communities or encourage cheering sections at live events. They exhort emotional fervor. For what? For subscriptions. Dude!
There is always going to be a tension between the needs of a moment and the ability of individual groups to respond to them. That can lead a group to expand, but there is always the danger of trying to do too much.
It takes different kinds of organizational trade skills to provide news analysis than it does to engage in political organizing. That's why you don't typically see groups trying to do both. For example, even the Pod Save America folks have a separate political action committee.
I don't see anything wrong with a media outlet generating subscription revenue -- that's far preferable to relying on ad revenue.
Nothing wrong with asking for subscribers. I should have put a question mark after that. But asking for subscribers is what news outlets do. If The Bulwark wants to be a community and a change agent (which they've always postured as...) they have to start being one. These are smart people who know how gumment works. This may be THE sliver of time to do something. If not now, when?
Yesterday, Robert Kagen was sincerely worried that Trump's rollout could happen very fast and historically, these things tend to be unstoppable after a certain point. There becomes a "too little, too late" inertia. I am not a historian, but it's my understanding that the most cultured and educated country in the world went from democracy to Nazi in less than a year.
I have often said that Bannon's idea of Flooding the Zone will work. It has worked. There are too many targets to aim at now. Trump is the one target.
And Robert Kagen answered your very question, posed by Kristol. What do we do? Kagen's answer was to hound Congress. He said the press wasn't doing well, for various reasons, but principally because they did not understand the basic ideological basis for this. Anti-liberalism.
And most people don't understand. The few that do understand need to call and write representatives, and begin to protest. I agree, it doesn't sound like enough, but for now it is what we have, according to both Kagen and Kristol. In fact, a lot of commenters take this question. Tim Miller and Adam Kinzinger talked about what protest message would be best. They seemed to agree on Anti-Billionaire. Kinzinger won an uphill battle for Congress riding the Tea Party wave. He said it's time for a liberal Tea Party. Here is where the discussion is among people who know, rather than people who have an opinion.
It is going to be Flooding the Zone, as you said. And I think hit all targets. Not knowing what to do myself, I have called 2 offices of each of my 3 representatives and written a letter to the editor about Putin today.
I disagree -- The Bulwark is performing an important role in analyzing the news. If you want to take political action, then get involved in groups that align with your ideological and strategic sensibilities.
So far, it is an op-ed outlet. It calls us a community and calls us to join in live events. Op Ed news people don't have communities or encourage cheering sections at live events. They exhort emotional fervor. For what? For subscriptions. Dude!
There is always going to be a tension between the needs of a moment and the ability of individual groups to respond to them. That can lead a group to expand, but there is always the danger of trying to do too much.
It takes different kinds of organizational trade skills to provide news analysis than it does to engage in political organizing. That's why you don't typically see groups trying to do both. For example, even the Pod Save America folks have a separate political action committee.
I don't see anything wrong with a media outlet generating subscription revenue -- that's far preferable to relying on ad revenue.
Nothing wrong with asking for subscribers. I should have put a question mark after that. But asking for subscribers is what news outlets do. If The Bulwark wants to be a community and a change agent (which they've always postured as...) they have to start being one. These are smart people who know how gumment works. This may be THE sliver of time to do something. If not now, when?
Yesterday, Robert Kagen was sincerely worried that Trump's rollout could happen very fast and historically, these things tend to be unstoppable after a certain point. There becomes a "too little, too late" inertia. I am not a historian, but it's my understanding that the most cultured and educated country in the world went from democracy to Nazi in less than a year.
I have often said that Bannon's idea of Flooding the Zone will work. It has worked. There are too many targets to aim at now. Trump is the one target.
Time is not on our side.
And Robert Kagen answered your very question, posed by Kristol. What do we do? Kagen's answer was to hound Congress. He said the press wasn't doing well, for various reasons, but principally because they did not understand the basic ideological basis for this. Anti-liberalism.
And most people don't understand. The few that do understand need to call and write representatives, and begin to protest. I agree, it doesn't sound like enough, but for now it is what we have, according to both Kagen and Kristol. In fact, a lot of commenters take this question. Tim Miller and Adam Kinzinger talked about what protest message would be best. They seemed to agree on Anti-Billionaire. Kinzinger won an uphill battle for Congress riding the Tea Party wave. He said it's time for a liberal Tea Party. Here is where the discussion is among people who know, rather than people who have an opinion.
It is going to be Flooding the Zone, as you said. And I think hit all targets. Not knowing what to do myself, I have called 2 offices of each of my 3 representatives and written a letter to the editor about Putin today.
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