Going to create a new Twitter series: "Who's to Blame for the rise of Donald Trump?" …
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 12, 2015
1. Angela Merkel? https://t.co/VScxaY6Yc5
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 12, 2015
2. The PC Left? https://t.co/5Shy4bcCqY
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 12, 2015
3. GOP consultants? https://t.co/Xdk5maYxJ7
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 12, 2015
4. Copperhead Dems? https://t.co/9Jr0S5Z6GU
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 12, 2015
5. "Both sides" pundits? https://t.co/TBP38eLqGg
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 12, 2015
6. DC elites? https://t.co/AQjSnb3Tu7
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 12, 2015
7. Obama's inaction in Syria? https://t.co/TjCPTokSYk
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 12, 2015
8. Infowars and Alex Jones? https://t.co/5oyiHZvjdR
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 12, 2015
9. Slow growth (but not inequality)? https://t.co/C3PcpDfYqI
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 13, 2015
10. Hillary Clinton? https://t.co/pAb1rnOZ9N
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 13, 2015
11. Inbred Republicans? https://t.co/GtlbTOY7hp
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 13, 2015
12. Christian conservatives? https://t.co/fEILdSaRcO
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 13, 2015
13. Liberals (obviously)? https://t.co/dn9Z1oGr9n
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 13, 2015
14. Corruption and incompetence? https://t.co/2pmOxs4t6P
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 13, 2015
15. George W. Bush!!! (So obvious for such a late entry.) https://t.co/tOOAjWVMNi
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 13, 2015
16. Saturday Night Live? https://t.co/SiaJ30MBu8
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 13, 2015
17. Mitt Romney? (via @rgblong ) https://t.co/ouA0xfLAXx
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 14, 2015
18. Obama? (Too obvious.) https://t.co/brxHjdqkZe
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 14, 2015
19. Obama's selfies? (A more promising turn.) https://t.co/evaHnyALd2
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 14, 2015
20. Obama's disliking America? https://t.co/CMx7Jxdizd
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 15, 2015
21. The Final Four? https://t.co/VqvVt7PlzS pic.twitter.com/3fXGjPmpRc
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 15, 2015
22. People protesting Trump? https://t.co/laDrXorkmD
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 15, 2015
23. The Anti-Defamation League? https://t.co/tfXxLWDE99 pic.twitter.com/RT0vdaTEPG
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 16, 2015
24. Sarah Palin? https://t.co/zK7NeaFBVC
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 16, 2015
25. Tom Brady? https://t.co/bzLziuSBxx pic.twitter.com/xJe4O1aCKY
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 17, 2015
26. America's moderatism? https://t.co/nCaBkH0iTk
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 18, 2015
27. America's immoderatism? https://t.co/KGKELmqVXj
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) December 18, 2015
28. America's self-destructive whites (and especially their lack of resilience)? https://t.co/z7rih6GL6B
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) January 3, 2016
29. The BLM protest of Bernie Sanders? (More generally, the PC police. But that's old news.) https://t.co/v8PlUGTudq pic.twitter.com/ZgIUx0i1ZV
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) January 4, 2016
30. De-industrialization? https://t.co/j0CDkDLsuB
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) January 4, 2016
31. Germaphobia? https://t.co/lOj88J6tF4 pic.twitter.com/YtId3FLEYr
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) January 4, 2016
32. Some new, not easily summarized hypothesis? https://t.co/pL2k2ZB2Kx
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) January 6, 2016
33. The Buffalo Bills? (Can't believe I'd missed such an obvious one.) https://t.co/vJQOPxW8kt
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) January 6, 2016
34. Mainly academia? https://t.co/OHqDMEjGMK pic.twitter.com/5EjHXXIult
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) January 17, 2016
35. Opposing forces, conspiring together in surprising ways? https://t.co/O0Uvb4LHTr
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) January 23, 2016
36. Political scientists? https://t.co/eNzW8kmYah
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) February 24, 2016
37. Twenty years of talk radio? https://t.co/wUnGoQkSnT
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) February 26, 2016
38. Obama? (Rather late in the game for another "Obama" entry, but you can get away with it if you're NYT.) https://t.co/sSw0uEIEaW
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) February 28, 2016
39. Neocons? https://t.co/0PdAbdms9p
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 4, 2016
40. Nuance? (Not just Obama, which is boring now. But specifically his nuance?) https://t.co/7sJyEv8nnF
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 4, 2016
41. Neoliberalism? (As foretold by Richard Rorty.) https://t.co/DzYI0B6oRR pic.twitter.com/tUud0ymZuM
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 4, 2016
42. Because you were thinking of an elephant? (Lakoff.) https://t.co/txd7cU9fyh
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 6, 2016
43. A National Enquirer mentality, reality TV voyeurism, Twitter, and snarky email comments? https://t.co/oMCuroQtXN pic.twitter.com/rDr1lK1BEM
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 8, 2016
44. Al Franken? (Via @AidanMcGlynn) https://t.co/TwekipxG4I
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 8, 2016
45. Our nation's 5th Graders? https://t.co/pafiBL7IGp
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 9, 2016
46. Articles blaming Trump on their pet cause? (See above.) https://t.co/OOpKSu1uSu
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 9, 2016
47. Republican elites and many of the information outlets? (Special Presidential Edition.) https://t.co/Cy7rq7NXcM pic.twitter.com/jhXOmh2GMW
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 10, 2016
48. The flow of Trump theories itself? (For Voldemortian reasons.) https://t.co/h4Z7xRf2nQ pic.twitter.com/La3uzv9R3M
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 10, 2016
Feel like I've reached my hipster phase with this thread. I was pointing out the many Trump theories way, way before doing so was popular.
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 10, 2016
Q: What are my own personal favorite Trump theories?
A: You've probably never heard of them.
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 10, 2016
49. America's political decay? https://t.co/utgEPSVNNW
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 11, 2016
50. Self-referential loops? https://t.co/sgNjT3nVgr
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 11, 2016
51. Because we're on The Road to Serfdom? https://t.co/TkhfiRgEv3
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 11, 2016
52. Jokes told at the White House Correspondents' Dinner? https://t.co/7vCADT1ufa
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 12, 2016
53. Huffington Post gets me, knows what sort of breaking news I need to see ASAP. pic.twitter.com/lLdx5N2mlt
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 13, 2016
54. *Only* the GOP itself? (Too austere for me. Maybe GOP in collaboration with Merkel, or Buffalo Bills. But only?) https://t.co/WCdEOL1i1u
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 13, 2016
55. Obama says don't blame *me*, but notice he doesn't explicitly address whether his Final 4 picks are to blame. https://t.co/MpV2kzetXr
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 13, 2016
56 The wacko right and the wacko left, equally? https://t.co/SQophExNJN
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 13, 2016
57. Americans want the real deal (not Clinton's mask)? https://t.co/7SZeZlQUhg
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 14, 2016
58. Multifactorial institutional failure? https://t.co/c2rTalv9Sa
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 14, 2016
59. Marco Rubio? https://t.co/7BJd1eofvj
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 14, 2016
60. The sneering disdain of cosmopolitans? https://t.co/Bvo4xFHfJs pic.twitter.com/BNRhxZXVTA
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 14, 2016
61. History hasn't ended yet? (Fukuyama.) https://t.co/HGZHOiWobl
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 14, 2016
62. A lost sense of America's purpose, defined in terms of international involvement? https://t.co/spdimmodMp
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 14, 2016
63. The poverty in belief of the privileged? https://t.co/JjpsS1kzoj
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 14, 2016
64. Having trouble keeping up with all the theories, tbh. https://t.co/ZGBe3uf6oY
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 14, 2016
65. Samantha Bee? https://t.co/70ORAePenk
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 15, 2016
66. Conservative media? https://t.co/8X40X7txZz
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 16, 2016
67. Republican Jews? https://t.co/3oCd21sKI0
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 16, 2016
68. I've got this beat: I have 68 Trump takes in like ~4,000 characters. https://t.co/aMuOip7NbB
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 16, 2016
69. Feminist glaciology? (Everything is connected; my Twitter world collapses upon itself.) https://t.co/uw2JIliAYN pic.twitter.com/BuMnA6cBMn
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 16, 2016
70. The voters? https://t.co/zR7BfADi0O
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 16, 2016
71. Banal playlists? https://t.co/F4z9qMV3Fp
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 16, 2016
72. Covert SJWs? https://t.co/u1alp1zqeH
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 17, 2016
73. The Merrick Garland nomination? (Bear with this one–it requires some backwards causation.) https://t.co/05bpdi0w0Z
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 19, 2016
74. Participation trophies? https://t.co/9CoMaYfSVY
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 19, 2016
75. "New theory"=mostly Obama + financial crisis (also thirst for punishment).https://t.co/TKjrfxdHJF
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 19, 2016
76. Television staffers in existential crisis? https://t.co/J198appqhj
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 19, 2016
77. Ted Cruz not distancing himself from Frank Gaffney? https://t.co/2Z6tFZOMK1
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 22, 2016
78. The illiberal left, having a "moment"? https://t.co/C8iEMM2ril
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 25, 2016
79. The GOP's professional activists? (via @CK_MacLeod )https://t.co/TP6YIx1iNk
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 25, 2016
80. Emory's student activists? https://t.co/larIbSXA5C
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 25, 2016
81. Media lapdogs? (Again, pretty late in the day for such an obvious entry. But NYT.) https://t.co/BcK9bBc3pM
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 27, 2016
82. Idiosyncratic speech patterns? https://t.co/VSDuYmWOVx
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 27, 2016
83. Necessary but insufficient conditions? https://t.co/BNF4h8NkYb
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 27, 2016
84. I hereby include this entire list within my list (via @jessespafford) https://t.co/VA156Pf0Yf
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 27, 2016
85. Three things? https://t.co/roZR1Rbjp7
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 27, 2016
Trump's rise almost surely requires all 3 of these:
1. Failings of GOP voters (incl. racism)
2. Failings of GOP elites
3. Failings of media— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 27, 2016
86. Foolishness? https://t.co/WcBS1ZBkLa pic.twitter.com/yRFaPU7eFP
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 28, 2016
87. You? (A quiz.) https://t.co/mKdODt8iiS
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) March 31, 2016
88. Jacques Derrida? (Via @Abebab). https://t.co/387pXPGgYj
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) April 4, 2016
89. Roland Barthes? https://t.co/sIKpGcIai4
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) April 4, 2016
90. White grievance? (Special, Bill O'Reilly edition.) https://t.co/m5nRsPQbuM
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) April 6, 2016
91. A civically incompetent mob? https://t.co/PKGpixFCLi
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) April 6, 2016
92. Political correctness, *as evidenced by* Scott Baio, Stephen Baldwin, Ted Nugent, Mike Tyson, and Jon Voight? https://t.co/kaHynAvaBm
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) April 12, 2016
93. Early onset dementia? https://t.co/PCYG2S3Mb9
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) April 26, 2016
94. Seth Myers? https://t.co/hx3fvoHPKW
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) April 28, 2016
95. PC & BLM? (Very late entry for such standard choices, but special Andrew Sullivan edition.)
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 2, 2016
96. Ex nihilo? https://t.co/UYlohVrxnt
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 2, 2016
97. The Nazi invasion of France? (via @epicciuto) https://t.co/v8yulkbvpF
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 4, 2016
98. Andrew Sullivan? https://t.co/RYw8ZQa8u9 pic.twitter.com/6Q0zFycbyT
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 4, 2016
99. George W. Bush? https://t.co/IooooMLd9O
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 5, 2016
100. The Kardashianization of America? (Via @AidanMcGlynn) https://t.co/CybXKj9IWi
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 5, 2016
101. John Roberts? https://t.co/rGJ2WREgz9
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 5, 2016
102. Nihilism? https://t.co/vvFt6hlfUp
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 5, 2016
103. God? https://t.co/9Dnkmu6qP9
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 5, 2016
104. The baby boomer generation as a whole? https://t.co/rq42BNemba
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 7, 2016
105. Paleoconservatism? https://t.co/vSm0DOXWbU
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 7, 2016
106. The decline of whiteness? (Via @mittmattmutt) https://t.co/KZA5DHwidB
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 11, 2016
107. Democrats? (Special, Jon Stewart out of retirement edition.) https://t.co/msRvtiNe4H
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 11, 2016
108. This guy? https://t.co/AcNpjZayjU
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 11, 2016
109. The Republican Party is filled with idiots? (Via @CK_MacLeod) https://t.co/AHhRSXvyGL
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 11, 2016
110. Not just idiots, but racist idiots? https://t.co/GQeu9ykpcC
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 11, 2016
111. Non-idiot racists? https://t.co/CnicGeGwW5
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 11, 2016
112. The Iraq War? (Not fully endorsing this, just can't believe I haven't see such a theory.) pic.twitter.com/Kn2tYgTnhK
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 11, 2016
113. Withdrawal of orthodox Christians from public life? (Via @bfoht) https://t.co/FhhUqWKzlz pic.twitter.com/oNfVH8kuOF
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 11, 2016
114. The popularized, bullshit version of my hours of hard academic work? https://t.co/4Fna1uMHC0
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 12, 2016
115. Caudillisimo? (Via @rob_mullin) https://t.co/NH1H2wrK43
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 16, 2016
116. That optimism isn't cool? https://t.co/X2E4YSoJ7G
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 16, 2016
117. Not liberals? https://t.co/HrdcszCthy
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 16, 2016
118. *Not* television? https://t.co/rrHKZ6FQlv
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 16, 2016
119. *Not* non-Republicans? https://t.co/rxrJxss3xz
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 16, 2016
120. There were some that logically entailed me, but none that dared name me. Until now. https://t.co/8WWCnwIzvC
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 16, 2016
121. *Not* Sean Hannity? (For the record, I didn't have a specific Hanniry entry before this. So it's preemptive.) https://t.co/bzsoFNrOSo
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 16, 2016
122. Twitter itself? (via @AriTubert). https://t.co/ZuEyNH42Yp
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 16, 2016
123. Determinism? https://t.co/pI2trvVqzF
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 16, 2016
124. This guy's ex-wife? (Via @Thomas_Zwilling) https://t.co/5kmaWmiME4
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 16, 2016
125. I have all these except libertarians. (I hereby include libertarians.) https://t.co/liWiTmWOaN
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 17, 2016
126. Transgender access to bathrooms? (Via @bfoht) https://t.co/dYS8QO1ZoX pic.twitter.com/9keJ2BmVCI
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 17, 2016
127. Post-1960s liberalism–that is, baby boomers? pic.twitter.com/WbcyyUoyid
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 17, 2016
128. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah? https://t.co/gmiQGIYaCT
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 19, 2016
129. The emasculation of American men? (Via @ibn_ezra) https://t.co/74QfwBqf60 pic.twitter.com/EIren78RyZ
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 20, 2016
130. Sleep deprivation? https://t.co/Vb7XaUKcm4
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 22, 2016
131. The CBS primetime television lineup? https://t.co/xIWIFOF64f
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 23, 2016
132. Your inescapable death? https://t.co/bI2XKdcfw6
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 23, 2016
133. Simply to ask the question betrays a kind of philosophical confusion? https://t.co/uUGqQd9ufT pic.twitter.com/JJsfwZh3zu
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 24, 2016
134. Pornography? (Via @sarahdoingthing) https://t.co/zXFM4NoFQO
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 25, 2016
135. The extreme disembeddedness of the economy from social relations; and in connection, pure abstraction? https://t.co/eE6fzzVlyI
— Justin Tiehen (@jttiehen) May 25, 2016
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Hey – I’d be thinking about doing this, as a public service! Did you you use some programmatic means to accomplish it, or did you do it “by hand” somehow?
By hand. I checked to see if there was a Storify or something like this because I’d assumed *sombody* had done it. Maybe with incremental updates. But nope.
He has to be fucking kidding.
There’s a lot of blame to go around!
And still expanding…
I blame Hillary…
Dayum.