{"id":16889,"date":"2021-11-26T20:55:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T01:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=16889"},"modified":"2021-11-26T23:21:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T04:21:06","slug":"how-to-reason-like-a-twitter-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/26\/how-to-reason-like-a-twitter-mob\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reason Like a Twitter Mob"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single__header\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<h3 class=\"headline headline--single\">New York Post, November 26, 2021<\/h3>\n<h1 class=\"headline headline--single\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/26\/twitter-reaction-to-my-deep-state-piece-shows-dems-are-docile-to-big-government\/\">Twitter reaction to my Deep State piece shows Dems are docile to Big Government<\/a><\/h1>\n<div class=\"article-header__meta\" aria-label=\"Byline\">\n<div class=\"byline meta meta--byline\">\n<p>By<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline__author\"><a class=\"meta__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/26\/twitter-reaction-to-my-deep-state-piece-shows-dems-are-docile-to-big-government\/#\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"flyout-james-bovard\">James Bovard<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"featured-image featured-image__wrapper m-top\">\n<figure class=\"featured-image__figure\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter is the gold standard for cutting-edge political commentary, at least according to Twitter aficionados. Roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2019\/08\/02\/10-facts-about-americans-and-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">20 percent of American adults use Twitter<\/a>, though the large majority of tweets come from only 10 percent of the users. Because Twitter is tilted left with far more Democrats than Republicans online, <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single__content entry-content m-bottom \">\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--primary-tag\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>On Tuesday, I ambled online after breakfast and saw that \u201cDeep State\u201d was a Twitter trending topic. I tossed out my two cents: \u201cDon\u2019t forget how NYTimes &amp; many liberals heaped praise on the Deep State in 2019 for its role in the first Trump impeachment.\u201d I attached a link <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2019\/11\/13\/donald-trump-deep-state-ukraine-cia-nsa-state-department-column\/2521881001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to my 2019 USA Today article<\/a> headlined \u201cAs the deep state attacks Trump to rave media reviews, don\u2019t forget its dark side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alas, I quickly learned that I was a hopeless reactionary. Apparently, President Donald Trump condemning the Deep State proves it doesn\u2019t exist. And since a Democrat now occupies the White House, any mention of the Deep State is a sin against the political Holy Ghost. DoinTimeOnEarth responded to my tweet: \u201cWhy don\u2019t you shut up &amp; do some good instead of spreading lies?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter is a fount of wisdom because so many of its users are omniscient.<\/strong> Someone with the Twitter name \u201cWhat?\u201d howled: \u201cUSATODAY has gone bat-s \u2013 \u2013 t crazy. . . . And no, I am not going to read a bunch of jackass bulls \u2013 \u2013 t before re-tweeting with this comment.\u201d My story had 23 links to news stories, analyses and government reports on the Deep State scandals, including Bush-era torture, National Security Agency misdeeds, drone killings of innocent foreigners and other abuses of power and secrecy. It included links to three New York Times articles confirming the Deep State\u2019s role in spurring Trump\u2019s first impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter user Nom of the Plume huffed: \u201cLiberals don\u2019t believe in the \u2018deep state.\u2019 It goes against our radical values of being sane and educated.\u201d I replied: \u201cSo being a smug \u2018educated\u2019 liberal means believing federal agencies don\u2019t pervasively violate the law &amp; Constitution? When did gullibility become a badge of political sophistication?\u201d My response failed to placate my critics. \u201cNom\u201d commented: \u201cNo I won\u2019t try to have a rational conversation with irrational people . . . You are extremists and terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>On Twitter, \u201clikes\u201d are the highest form of logic, and retweets are irrefutable truth.<\/strong> Some Twitter users disproved my articles by posting rows of laughing emoji. Others debunked my delusion with memes such as a photo of a screw next to a baseball. Some of the names of Twitter respondents reeked of piety. \u201cCovfefe_au_lait is FULLY VAXXED+BOOSTER\u201d sneered that \u201canyone who uses the phrase [Deep State] sounds ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For many Twitter zealots, any mention of the \u201cDeep State\u201d is sufficient proof of mental illness. Almost 40 people liked a reply declaring: \u201cIt does not exist. It is a construct of your collective imagination lead [<em>sic<\/em>] by a diseased mind.\u201d NygrooveX smirked: \u201cIt must be \u2018Deep State Day\u2019 in Crazytown Today.\u201d MindyLouAgain scoffed: \u201cyou are deranged.\u201d Gerald Slaby summed up: \u201cDon\u2019t blame us [liberals] for your ignorance and insanity.\u201d DocB counseled: \u201cdon\u2019t forget to take your medication or you end up like this.\u201d Twitter user antifashyst cackled: \u201cGet professional help, Jimmy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Few if any of the hostile respondents clicked through to read that 2019 USA Today piece. PupperMum declared: \u201cPlease share examples. Should be easy.\u201d You mean aside from the 20+ links in the first article? I replied to her by posting a link to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-lies-arent-secret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Conservative article<\/a> I wrote in February that detailed the FBI\u2019s machinations with the Steele dossier (condemned by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2019\/12\/10\/ig-report-fbi-fisa-abuse-secret-court-trump-campaign-column\/4383722002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Justice Department inspector general<\/a>) and the CIA\u2019s skulduggery bankrolling terrorist groups to fuel the Syrian civil war. That received zero responses from critics.<\/p>\n<p>That Twitter throng symbolized how Democrats have become far more docile toward Big Government in recent years. In the 1970s, a Senate select committee chaired by Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) courageously exposed vast abuses by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/about\/powers-procedures\/investigations\/church-committee.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI COINTELPRO<\/a> and CIA spying on US citizens. In 2014, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) valiantly defied the Obama White House to publish a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feinstein.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/senate-intelligence-committee-study-on-cia-detention-and-interrogation-progra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Senate Intelligence Committee<\/a> report exposing the CIA\u2019s post-9\/11 torture regime. But a 2018 Pew survey found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2018\/07\/24\/growing-partisan-differences-in-views-of-the-fbi-stark-divide-over-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">77 percent of Democrats<\/a> had a favorable view of the FBI and 63 percent approved of the CIA. I wondered how many of the folks enraged by my tweet had bought those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/magazine\/muellers-report-is-done-is-there-still-a-point-in-having-a-prayer-candle-with\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">votive candles<\/a> to pray for former FBI chief and special counsel Robert Mueller, whose investigation failed to prove that Trump was a Russian tool.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--related-post\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading widget-heading widget-heading--underline\"><\/h2>\n<div class=\"story story--i-flex story--i-flex-none-lg\">\n<div class=\"story__image\"><a class=\"inline-module--related-post__link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/12\/so-wheres-post-pulitzer-for-hunter-biden-expose-goodwin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0 <\/a><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"postid-19784599 story__headline headline headline--xs inline-module--related-post__headline\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Twitter bosses have sometimes gone overboard to keep users intellectually barefoot and pregnant. Prior to the 2020 election, Twitter blocked the sharing of New York Post articles <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/12\/so-wheres-post-pulitzer-for-hunter-biden-expose-goodwin\/\">on the damning information contained in Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop<\/a> and even locked The Post\u2019s Twitter account. CEO Jack Dorsey admitted at a congressional hearing in March that Twitter\u2019s treatment of The Post was a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/25\/dorsey-says-blocking-posts-hunter-biden-story-was-total-mistake\/\">total mistake<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Twitter has simply become confirmation of the historian Henry Adams\u2019 observation a century ago that politics \u201chas always been the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2018\/08\/12\/unite-right-sputters-antifa-fails-hopeful-signs-america-column\/971952002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">systematic organization<\/a> of hatreds.\u201d <strong>Twitter exemplifies how herd confirmation is now a sufficient substitute for evidence \u2014 at least for many political activists. People consider themselves well-informed because they skimmed dozens of one-sentence tweets and 100 memes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When law professor Glenn Reynolds canceled his popular Twitter account three years ago, he declared, \u201cTwitter actually makes people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2018\/12\/03\/twitter-facebook-social-media-bias-political-poison-blogosphere-instapundit-c\">meaner and less thoughtful<\/a>. . . . If you set out to design a platform that would poison America\u2019s discourse and its politics, you\u2019d be hard pressed to come up with something more destructive than Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe because my sense of humor has always been a bit depraved, I still get a kick out of Twitter. I can tap on the site and quickly see the latest links and best quips from some of the sharpest political commentators I know. And if a Twitter mob heats up my office on a cold November morning, I would be remiss not to give them a hat tip.<\/p>\n<p><em>James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post, November 26, 2021 Twitter reaction to my Deep State piece shows Dems are docile to Big Government By James Bovard Twitter is the gold standard for cutting-edge political commentary, at least according to Twitter aficionados. 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The Wall Street Journal called Bovard \"the roving inspector general of the modern state\" and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a \"one-man truth squad.\" His 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, received the Free Press Association\u2019s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism &amp; Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner \"Best Book on Liberty in 2003\" award. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association. Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16891,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16889\/revisions\/16891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}