@ralphschroeder
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In 2020 election, Trump’s main opponent is not Biden, but whether the media allow his tweets to blame China for the pandemic and thus escape blame for his failures: ‘they should pay’, he will say. #populism #China #Trump
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Xi and the media should not be led by his tweets in the coming war of words with China. But social media populism pays in China too, and all media, esp. American ones, are under financial pressure: analytics-driven populism and jingoism, anyone?
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A replay of August 2016? when I said Twitter gave Trump a decisive advantage to win the nomination, and populism clinched his presidency doi.org/10.1177/135485651666… and subsequent publications uclpress.co.uk/products/9513…
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The future until November 2020 is increasingly predictable: Xi is forced by trade wars into retaliation: He unloads or calls in the huge financial debt that the US owes to China. Trump blames the Chinese for the economic downturn. Americans believe him, and reelect him #populism
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Now he has another four years of recklessness, unrestrained by the need for reelection. (There is secret tip here for how Xi can get a Democrat elected, while avoiding being seen as Russian-style interference, and it does not even take a ‘very stable genius’). There is hope…
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ralph schroeder retweeted
Ulrike Deetjen@ulrikedeetjen13 Mar 2015
#Bigdata for Advancing #Dementia Research: @OECD report with @etmeyer and @ralphschroeder released bigdatadementia.oii.ox.ac.uk
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