McKay Coppins

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Some truly incredible (dumb) responses to this Xi Jinping story. https://t.co/zZKo2QuXXR — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Every sentence in this story about Xi Jinping’s crackdown in China is more nightmarish and absurd than the last. https://t.co/NRJAvkV5EO https://t.co/bgnWsVEp4x — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

Ryan Smith's long-term vision for Utah: More unicorn startups. Way more development. Fortune 500 companies relocating in droves. 20 million residents. Hollywood studios filming movies in SLC. Millions of Jazz fans across Asia and Europe. https://t.co/gCkkElZpNE — PolitiTweet.org

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In our interview, Smith seemed almost gleeful about provoking certain critics—anti-vaxxers, for example, or right-wing media figures who were mad at him for giving out scholarships to students of color. https://t.co/gCkkElZpNE https://t.co/p8nC8w5VMH — PolitiTweet.org

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On the other hand, Ryan Smith clearly believes certain things need to change in Utah and he's not particularly interested in waiting for his critics to come around: “I always say the hashtag for everything we’re doing is #kickingandscreaming.” https://t.co/gCkkElZpNE — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing I found interesting about @RyanQualtrics was his strong aversion to the reflexive haterism that so many Utahns practice. “This is the only place I’ve ever seen where people will choose to live here and have a bad attitude about it," he told me. https://t.co/gCkkElZpNE — PolitiTweet.org

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@RepAStoddard Thanks Andrew! My next project: https://t.co/zNI95SV0yW — PolitiTweet.org

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Ryan Smith Has a Pitch: I profiled the new owner of the Utah Jazz, an ambitious 43-year-old tech billionaire who wants to rebrand his team—and its home state. Not everyone is on board. My story for @DeseretMagazine: https://t.co/gCkkElZpNE — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: Mike Lee, the former Trump critic, and current Trump acolyte, may be vulnerable in 2022. An unusual coalition of opponents… — PolitiTweet.org

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"It is a particularly contemporary myopia that we tend to ascribe moral innocence to the traumatized, given that trauma is our only guaranteed inheritance and almost always the reason we do harm." https://t.co/WABbY3x7dm — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @anneapplebaum: All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like. There is a bad man at the top. He co… — PolitiTweet.org

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@sarahehunt01 Re-election is definitely the most likely scenario but it’s by no means a lock. A 45% approval rating is what it is. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rgigger No hard feelings! — PolitiTweet.org

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@rgigger Or maybe saying they “decided” something doesn’t suggest legitimacy, and your anger here is misdirected. — PolitiTweet.org

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You can read the whole story here (via @SchottHappens): https://t.co/DH5Wh1M6vW — PolitiTweet.org

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This comes after Utah voters approved a ballot initiative in 2018 that created an independent redistricting commission. The GOP-controlled state legislature decided the initiative was unconstitutional and drew their own gerrymandered map anyway. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BradleyPritts I think I have a pretty good grasp on intra-Republican politics in Utah, but for what it's worth Evan McMullin isn't running in the GOP primary so intra-Republican politics are not necessarily the main thing here. — PolitiTweet.org

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Did not realize the plot to take down Mike Lee already has merch. https://t.co/qTSCZDdE8W — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @danielmwoodruff: Interesting piece from @mckaycoppins on Utah's Senate race. Also interesting to remember that @SenMikeLee voted in 201… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Dalrymple If McAdams prevails and Democrats actually don’t put forward a nominee (a long shot but not impossible) I bet quite a few of those SLC progressives will vote for McMullin! — PolitiTweet.org

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When I asked Mike Lee about Evan McMullin, he said this: “If he wants to run for the United States Senate, it’s his prerogative to do so. He’s a citizen of this country, a resident of Utah apparently, and constitutionally eligible to run for that position” https://t.co/TgnBteFyDN — PolitiTweet.org

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McMullin, who told me he won’t caucus with either party if elected, on Mike Lee: “I like to believe he went [to DC] as a principled constitutional conservative but if you aid and abet an effort to overturn the republic, you can no longer claim to be that.” https://t.co/TgnBteFyDN — PolitiTweet.org

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Evan McMullin—who ran for president in 2016 as an independent and got 21% of the vote in Utah—is running against Lee as an independent, and has already won a key endorsement from a prominent Utah Democrat who wants the party to coalesce behind him. https://t.co/TgnBteFyDN — PolitiTweet.org

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Mike Lee has never been a favorite of the Utah establishment, but frustration with him spiked during the Trump years—especially as he picked fights that appeared to put him in conflict with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://t.co/TgnBteFyDN https://t.co/YsqxZ4QVkx — PolitiTweet.org

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Inside the plot to take down Mike Lee. My story on the unusual coalition in Utah working to unseat the former Trump critic turned Trump acolyte: https://t.co/TgnBteFyDN — PolitiTweet.org

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Spend some time today with these photos (and this @AndrewAoyama piece) that capture the "lonely poetry" of America's veterans' halls. https://t.co/5bbqSmSnqJ — PolitiTweet.org

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"According to a recent Atlantic survey, no gap exists between people with college degrees and those w/out them on some of the hot topics most commonly associated with 'wokeness.' Instead, neither group endorses the...'woke' positions particularly strongly" https://t.co/FLG33RHmlQ — PolitiTweet.org

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In Fairfax County, public school enrollment is down by more than 10K students since before the pandemic, a 5.5% decrease. Enrollment in NYC declined by 4.5%, about 50K students. In CA enrollment decreased by 3%, or 160K students, the largest drop in 20 yrs https://t.co/SK57IRsDFD — PolitiTweet.org

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“Yet it is the free-floating sense of rage from parents, many of whom felt abandoned by the government during the worst months of the pandemic, that arose from the off-year elections as one of the most powerful drivers for Republican candidates.” https://t.co/8JTLbzwULj — PolitiTweet.org

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@johnlegend @nihilists4jesus argh john, can you please be on my side on this? — PolitiTweet.org