It’s the last line that stands out. https://t.co/TA1VyBnRO6— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 7, 2020
As I've said multiple times before, my time on the intertoobs goes back to Salon's "Table Talk," when there were disparate groups and topics (sort of like Reddit now, I imagine) and you could pick where you commented.
"Politics" was the neighborhood where the others on "Table Talk" didn't stop at the lights if they blundered in. The Id of "Politics" was the "White House" section. This was when Clinton was in office (ask your grandpa, ya punks! And no, I don't mean Hillary!), and emotions ran high over what the meaning of is "is," and whether oral sex is really "sex," etc., etc. We devoured every report from Starr or the White House or whatever gossip dribbled out of D.C. It was all very inside baseball and under the stitches and entre nous. We had our own lingo, shorthand, secret handshakes, knew who was on the "right" side and who should be pilloried.
And it made not a groat's worth of difference to the "real world," which didn't even know we existed. We never rose to the prominence of The Big Orange or Netroots or Baby Blue or anything.
And what happened to all of that, while I'm asking?
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