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David Austin Walsh

@davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social

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Historian. Academic Advisor @ University of Virginia. Columnist @ Boston Review. Book: TAKING AMERICA BACK: THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE FAR RIGHT // Yale Press // April 2024

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · Jul 9

I re-upped my AHA membership for the explicit purpose of voting for this slate.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

*sips coffee*

Well, if my employer ends up signing the Trump administration's compact I'd have to quit my job, because there's no way I can teach American history and American politics under its provisions.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty much every serious scholar of the American conservative movement agrees.

David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

He's the intellectual version of Andrew Tate.

David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Bronze Age Pervert.

David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Assigned BAP's doctoral thesis for class today to open up discussion about eugenics, gender, and sexuality and it's even worse than I remember it being.

My personal favorite part is when he admits his views are the same as the Nazis' but he resents the guilt-by-association.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 4d

Mazower’s ON ANTISEMITISM is so far the single best book on the subject I have ever read, and I’m only on page 50.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 5d

Also not an auspicious sign for her actual tenure as governor.

Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 5d

I think this is right.

I wish Spanberger had used this race and her platform to go on offense against Republicans— especially in the spring and summer. She chose instead to do the Plouffe/late Harris campaign “bipartisan” move. That’s the safe move. It is what campaign consultants know.

Mark Anthony Frassetto @mark-frassetto.bsky.social · 5d

You could run literally any Democrat in Virginia and win by 10 points this year.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 5d

I was feeling bad about myself but then I found a Reddit post from a student saying that they loved my class and I feel a *little* better.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 7d

I gotta find another shoe guy. Took a pair in three weeks ago and already the rubber heel is coming off.

David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 9d

Where does one look to for mentorship as a middle-aged, mid-career burnout? (Besides this guy, of course.)

David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 10d

I just read my teaching evals from last semester and now I feel a bit better. The students really seemed to like me and valued my class!

David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 10d

Whenever faculty start talking about travel or conferences or research budgets this really hits home.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 10d

I generally like my job but sometimes it can get *extremely* frustrating to be reminded that I am doing the largely unrewarded and unappreciated work that makes the labor aristocracy of the tenured faculty possible.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19d

"What Are Groypers?": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Half the Answer #33: What Are Groypers?

Caitlin and Trent talk with independent journalist Amanda Moore about the groypers and their peers, the self-serving micro-celebrities who profit from them, and the media’s mad scramble to make the la...

www.liberalcurrents.com

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 19d

Today would also be a good day for some people to reflect on why they got the fascism question so wrong.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 20d

Geniunely don't understand how everyone isn't low-key panicking right now.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 21d

Counterpoint: decades of political science research have made it clear that there is no real correlation between public opinion and policy outcomes.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 21d

the thing Orban, Modi, ans Erdogan all had was broad public support that survived through the period of regime consolidation

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 21d

Unfortunately my exit plan went haywire when the Italian government closed its jure sanguine citizenship loophole.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 21d

Time to start making exit plans.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 21d

Also, tapping the sign: x.com/DavidAstinWa...

David Austin Walsh on X: "Which is not to say that we should be past-oriented and look to New Deal liberalism as our political model -- I simply mean that donors are preventing the party from transforming into something actually capable of meeting contemporary political, social, and economic challenges." / X

Which is not to say that we should be past-oriented and look to New Deal liberalism as our political model -- I simply mean that donors are preventing the party from transforming into something actually capable of meeting contemporary political, social, and economic challenges.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 21d

Yggy approvingly quoting-tweeting me on the Other Platform? What is the world coming to?

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 21d

Rather than seeing this as a political project, I would suggest it's better to see this as a reflection of an economy increasingly centered around the extremely niche emotional needs of people with billions of dollars to spare...

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21d

lol new clown car just rolled up

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 22d

Man, Robert Redford got out of here at the right time.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 23d

Genuinely believe that the reactions to Charlie Kirk's assassination might offer some insights into post-Trump MAGAism since Trump himself clearly doesn't give a shit.

Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 23d

how disrespectful. let’s get this guy fired from his job.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 25d

At the end of the day this is why so many of them are shook as bad as they are by the Kirk assassination.

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